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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But not one word shall they have from me, and I bind you to secrecy also, Dr. Watson.
-- 'Surely there is no need of secrecy between you and me.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a child, I was able to penetrate into the secrecy of the great man's private room.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the students, the cramped means!Three years I had of it "And after three years of secrecy and exasperation, I found that to complete it was impossible impossible."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was very much impressed by the elaborate secrecy of these two men regarding the contents of the place, and for some time I was thinking of that and of the unaccountable familiarity of the name of Moreau; but so odd is the hu-man memory that I could not then recall that well-known name in its proper connection.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 67Unconscious of the proceedings faithfully narrated in the last chapter, and little dreaming of the mine which had been sprung beneath him (for, to the end that he should have no warning of the business a-foot, the profoundest secrecy was observed in the whole transaction), Mr Quilp remained shut up in his hermitage, undisturbed by any suspicion, and extremely well satisfied with the result of his machinations.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the justiciary found it necessary to add a few words concerning the importance of the power given to the jury; that it should be used with care, and should not be abused; that they had taken an oath; that they were the conscience of society, and that the secrecy of the consultation room was sacred, etc., etc.
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：
-- His eyelids had dropped slightly, there was about him the same suggestive, mocking secrecy that was in the bearing of the two city creatures.
-- She wanted the absolute secrecy kept, with regard to her movements.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray write instantly, and let me understand it unless it is, for very co-gent reasons, to remain in the secrecy which Lydia seems to think necessary; and then I must endeavour to be satisfied with ignorance.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for this strange kind of secrecy maintained by them relative to their engagement, which in fact concealed nothing at all, she could not account; and it was so wholly contradictory to their general opinions and practice, that a doubt sometimes entered her mind of their being really engaged, and this doubt was enough to prevent her making any inquiry of Marianne.
-- Secrecy may be advisable; but still I cannot help wondering at its being practiced by him."
-- Nothing in my opinion has ever passed to justify doubt; no secrecy has been attempted; all has been uniformly open and unreserved.
-- We have already agreed that secrecy may be necessary, and we must acknowledge that it could not be maintained if their correspondence were to pass through Sir John's hands."
-- He looked surprised and said, "I beg your pardon, I am afraid my inquiry has been impertinent; but I had not supposed any secrecy intended, as they openly correspond, and their marriage is universally talked of."
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