secret是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 秘密的， 机密的n. 秘密，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet one would imagine it must have been practised in secret before.
-- His long separation from humanity, his secret vice of drunkenness, his evident sympathy with the Beast People, tainted him to me.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- 'Think you, Alice, that I would trust those I love by this secret path, did I imagine such need could happen?'
-- 'I am not a prejudiced man, nor one who vaunts himself on his natural privileges, though the worst enemy I have on earth, and he is an Iroquois, daren't deny that I am genuine white,' the scout replied, surveying, with secret satisfaction, the faded color of his bony and sinewy hand, 'and I am will-ing to own that my people have many ways, of which, as an honest man, I can't approve.
-- 'The one is, to be still as these sleeping woods, let what will happen and the other is, to keep the place where we shall take you, forever a secret from all mortal men.'
-- Although his alarming com-munication was not received without much secret terror by the listeners, his earnest and impressive manner, aided per-haps by the nature of the danger, succeeded in bracing their nerves to undergo some unlooked-for and unusual trial.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story.
-- It could not have been very easy to be bright and careless with that sudden secret in her heart, nor to give her attention to all the things that needed doing to get her children comfortably packed off.
-- She made no secret of her desires, and I was bidden to translate.
-- His fellow-painters made no secret of their contempt for his work, but he earned a fair amount of money, and they did not hesitate to make free use of his purse.
-- They seemed to me ugly, but they suggested without disclosing a secret of momentous significance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, with the pickaxe and spade, the windows and doors were properly shaped, the jagged edges were smoothed off, and a few days alter the beginning of the work, Granite House was abundantly lighted by the rising sun, whose rays penetrated into its most secret recesses.
-- It was probable that if they hunted into its most secret recesses, in all the wooded part between the Mercy and Reptile Point, they would find new treasures.
-- Perhaps then, our spheroid will rest will be left to death to revive some day under superior conditions!But all that, my friends, is the secret of the Author of all things; and beginning by the work of the insects, I have perhaps let myself be carried too far, in investigating the secrets of the future.
-- "That is the secret of God," said the engineer.
-- Sometimes he smiled at Herbert's ideas or Pencroft's nonsense, but always and everywhere he pondered over those inexplicable facts, that strange enigma, of which the secret still escaped him!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her quick eye seemed to read my thoughts, for as it met mine she added that there was no harm in what she had been doing, but it was a great secret a secret which she did not even know herself.
-- What could take him from home by night, and every night!I called up all the strange tales I had ever heard of dark and secret deeds committed in great towns and escaping detection for a long series of years; wild as many of these stories were, I could not find one adapted to this mystery, which only became the more impenetrable, in proportion as I sought to solve it.
-- But you are a deep man, and keep your secret close.'
-- 'And she has a right to do as she likes, I hope, Quilp,' said the old lady trembling, partly with anger and partly with a secret fear of her impish son-in-law.
-- I've led her on to tell her secret she supposed we were alone; and you were by, God forgive me.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And their responsibilities consisted in that if they failed to keep secret their deliberations, or spoke to outsiders, they would be liable to punishment.
-- To this class belonged all those who carried on a secret trade in wine, or were bringing in contraband goods, or were picking herbs, or gathering wood, in private or government forests.
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