喜樂美語

Picture a thing pulled out of sight and held back — information, a feeling, a plan — known only inside a small circle, with the door shut to everyone else. The whole word turns on that line between the few who are 'in' and the many kept out.

可以想成一樣東西被收到看不見的地方、刻意藏起來：可能是一條消息、一種感覺、一個計畫。只有圈內的少數幾個人知道，對其他所有人都關著門。整個字都繞著「知道的少數人」和「被擋在外面的多數人」這條界線轉。

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原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

secretnoun詞源 1/ˈsiː.kɹɪt/

  • 1

    A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.

    • "Can you keep a secret?" "Yes." "So can I."
    • To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery
  • 2

    The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.

    • The secret to a long-lasting marriage is compromise.
  • 3

    Something not understood or known.

    • Thou knewſt by name, and all th' ethereal powers, / All ſecrets of the deep, all Natures works,
  • 4

    Private seclusion.

    • The work was done in secret, so that nobody could object.
  • 5

    archaicThe genital organs.

  • 6

    historicalA form of steel skullcap.

  • 7

    ChristianityAny prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.

secretverb詞源 1/ˈsiː.kɹɪt/

  • 1

    rareTo make or keep secret.

    • … she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.
    • 1986, InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. Diskless workstations … make it difficult for individuals to copy information … onto a diskette and secret it away.
  • 2

    rareTo hide secretly.

secretadj詞源 2/ˈsiː.kɹɪt/

  • 1

    Being or kept hidden.

    • We went down a secret passage.
    • The ſecret things belong unto the Lord our God; but thoſe things which are reuealed belong unto us, and to our children for euer, that wee may doe all the words of this Law.
  • 2

    obsoleteWithdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.

    • Sing Heav'nly Muſe, that on the secret top / Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didſt inſpire / That Shepherd, who firſt taught the choſen Seed, / In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth / Roſe out of Chaos: [...]
    • secret in her sapphire cell
  • 3

    obsoleteFaithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive, separate, apart.

    • What neede we any ſpurre, but our owne cauſe / To pricke vs to redreſſe? What other Bond / Than ſecret Romans, that haue ſpoke the Word, / And will not palter?
  • 4

    obsoleteSeparate; distinct.

    • They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter.

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