secrecy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 秘密(状态)，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he bent his head in his most courtly manner, there was a secrecy in his smiling face, and he conveyed an air of mystery to those words, which struck the eyes and ears of his nephew forcibly.
-- So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.
-- To Mr. Lorry, the Doctor communicated under an in-junction of secrecy on which he had no need to dwell, that the crowd had taken him through a scene of carnage to the prison of La Force.
-- Thrown out of his honourable employment in England, through too much unsuccessful hard swearing there not because he was not wanted there; our English reasons for vaunting our superiority to secrecy and spies are of very modern date he knew that he had crossed the Channel, and accepted service in France: first, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among his own countrymen there: gradually, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among the natives.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reporters disliked him for his secrecy and occasional brusqueness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She puther hand upon it hurriedly- a hand so thin and delicate, that whenI had seen her hold it up before the fire to shade her face, I hadcompared it in my thoughts to fine porcelain- and saying, in aquick, fierce, passionate way, 'I swear you to secrecy about this!'
-- Not another word did Mr. Dick utter on the subject, but he made avery telegraph of himself for the next half-hour (to the greatdisturbance of my aunt's mind), to enjoin inviolable secrecy on me.
-- It was evident, from themanner in which she held her course, that she was going to somefixed destination; and this, and her keeping in the busy streets, andI suppose the strange fascination in the secrecy and mystery of sofollowing any one, made me adhere to my first purpose.
-- Mr. T.will not require me to depict my feelings, when I inform him that Ihave become accustomed to hear Mr. Micawber assert that he hassold himself to the D. Mystery and secrecy have long been hisprincipal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was perfectly accordant with that resolution of character which I knew her to possess; and the secrecy she had maintained, as to any such design in her former letter, was equally descriptive of its anxious delicacy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror.
-- I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom an awful promise had been extracted; I had no hope of deliverance through my all-powerful sister, who repulsed me at every turn; I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its pursuit, nevertheless, if it kept him near her, or its renunciation if it took him from her, or flight if she shared it, or secrecy if she commanded it, or any fate, or every fate, all was alike to him, so that she was true to him, the man who had seen how cast away she was, whom she had inspired at their first meeting with an admiration, an interest, of which he had thought himself incapable, whom she had received into her confidence, who was devoted to her and adored her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our success depends on secrecy and dispatch."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his tracking out of the claim to its complete establishment, Mr Pancks had shown a sagacity that nothing could baffle, and a patience and secrecy that nothing could tire.
-- How he had, thereupon, sworn his landlord, Mr Rugg, to secrecy in a solemn manner, and taken him into Moleing partnership.
-- Clennam saw now, that he had as much hope of getting assistance out of the Portrait as out of the Patriarch; but he said nevertheless:'Mr Casby, could you, for the satisfaction of the friends I have mentioned, and under any obligation of secrecy that you may consider it your duty to impose, give me any information at all touching Miss Wade?
-- If she could be brought to become communicative, and to do what lay in her to break the spell of secrecy that enshrouded the house, he might shake off the paralysis of which every hour that passed over his head made him more acutely sensible.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Amy, coming into their room one Saturday afternoon, and finding them get-ting ready to go out with an air of secrecy which excited her curiosity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This consummation being arrived at, Blathers and Duff cleared the room, and held a long council together, compared with which, for secrecy and solemnity, a consultation of great doctors on the knottiest point in medicine, would be mere child's play.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A promise of secrecy was of course very dutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for the curiosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very direct questions on his return as required some ingenuity to evade, and he was at the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing to publish his prosperous love.
-- To no creature had it been re-vealed, where secrecy was possible, except to Elizabeth; and from all Bingley's connections her brother was particularly anxious to conceal it, from the very wish which Elizabeth had long ago attributed to him, of their becoming hereafter her own.
-- There were few people on whose secrecy she would have more confidently depended; but, at the same time, there was no one whose knowledge of a sister's frailty would have mortified her so much not, however, from any fear of disadvantage from it individually to herself, for, at any rate, there seemed a gulf impassable between them.
-- She could not bear such suspense; and hastily seizing a sheet of paper, wrote a short letter to her aunt, to request an explanation of what Lydia had dropt, if it were compatible with the secrecy which had been intended.
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