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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a private gentleman to keep the secret under such circumstances would be very difficult, and for a State whose every act is persistently watched by powerful rivals, certainly impossible.
-- You came to surprise a secret which no man in the world must penetrate the secret of my whole existence.
-- I tried to learn the secret of his life from the last words that escaped his lips.
-- What a misfortune that the secret of such an invention should die with its inventor!"
-- I trembled as if an invisible eye had plunged into my most secret thoughts, and I hurried from the room.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She always felt vulnerable, vulnerable, there was always a secret chink in her armour.
-- It was not that she was interested in what he said; she was absorbed by his self-revelation, by him, she wanted the secret of him, the experience of his male being.
-- The same secret seemed to be working in the souls of all alike, Gudrun, Palmer, the rakish young bloods, the gaunt, middle-aged men.
-- All had a secret sense of power, and of inexpressible destructiveness, and of fatal half-heartedness, a sort of rottenness in the will.
-- "I'm sure they won't," she said, as if she had to convince herself also, and yet, as if she were confident of some secret power in herself, and had to put it to the test.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nelly, will you keep a secret for me?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world mastered the whole secret of these delicious people.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For me, at least, there was no secret about the matter, for I was, in a way, a sharer in his alarms.
-- Now, treasure is ticklish work; I don't like treasure voyages on any account, and I don't like them, above all, when they are secret and when (begging your pardon, Mr. Trelawney) the secret has been told to the parrot."
-- "Well, gentlemen," continued the captain, "I don't know who has this map; but I make it a point, it shall be kept secret even from me and Mr. Arrow.
-- Silver was in the stern-sheets in command; and every man of them was now provided with a musket from some secret magazine of their own.
-- When the doctor had wormed this secret from him on the afternoon of the attack, and when next morning he saw the anchorage deserted, he had gone to Silver, given him the chart, which was now useless given him the stores, for Ben Gunn's cave was well supplied with goats' meat salted by himself given anything and everything to get a chance of moving in safety from the stockade to the two-pointed hill, there to be clear of malaria and keep a guard upon the money.
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