Privy

(adj.) hidden from general view or use; 'a privy place to rest and think'; 'a secluded romantic spot'; 'a secret garden' .

(adj.) (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known; 'privy to the details of the conspiracy' .

校对:潘西

• I suspected her at once of being privy to the suppression of the Diamond. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Shortly after, the petition of the Massachusetts Assembly was taken up for examination before the privy council. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Emma found that it was not Mr. Weston's fault that the number of privy councillors was not yet larger. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Miss Ainley was to meet them, and the plan was to be discussed in full privy council. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Persons who were made privy to his first discovery testify to the several experiments which he made in their presence before he ventured to expose his invention to the scrutiny of the public eye. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The head master and his clerical assistant are both represented as being privy to the affair. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The cause was amply discussed before the privy council. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Had he been privy to her conversation with his son, he would not have wished her to belong to him, though her twenty thousand pounds had been forty. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• If Miss Verinder is not privy to the suppression of the Diamond, what do these things mean? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

整理:辛克莱