Such books, which only rarely end up in permanent collections, either private or public, will probably only be available as e-books within a few years.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
Didn't you see the private sign over there?
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
They are owned by individuals and by private businesses and corporations, lending institutions, direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card companies, and government agencies at the local, state, and federal level
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
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ADJ
（產業、服務）私立的，私有的，私營的，民營的
Private industries and services are owned or controlled by an individual person or a commercial company, rather than by the state or an official organization.
例句
...a joint venture with private industry...
與私營企業建立的合資企業
Bupa runs private hospitals in Britain...
保柏在英國開辦私立醫院。
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ADJ
個人的；私人的
Private individuals are acting only for themselves, and are not representing any group, company, or organization.
例句
...the law's insistence that private citizens are not permitted to have weapons...
法律堅持要求公民個人不得持有武器
The King was on a private visit to enable him to pray at the tombs of his ancestors...
國王以私人身份出訪，以便能夠祭拜先祖陵墓。
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ADJ
（財物等）個人所有的，私有的，私人的
Your private things belong only to you, or may only be used by you.
例句
The landowners have had to sell their private aircraft...
這些土地所有者不得不賣掉自己的私人飛機。
They want more State control over private property...
他們希望加強國家對私有財產的控制。
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ADJ
（地方、聚會等）非公開的，私人的
Private places or gatherings may be attended only by a particular group of people, rather than by the general public.
例句
673 private golf clubs took part in a recent study...
673家私人高爾夫俱樂部參與了最近的研究。
The door is marked 'Private'...
這扇門上標著“私人房間”。
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ADJ
（會議、討論、活動等）秘密的，私下的
Private meetings, discussions, and other activities involve only a small number of people, and very little information about them is given to other people.
例句
Don't bug private conversations, and don't buy papers that reprint them.
不要竊聽私人談話，不要購買重印這些談話的報紙。
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ADJ
（生活）私人的，個人的，與工作無關的
Your private life is that part of your life that is concerned with your personal relationships and activities, rather than with your work or business.
例句
I've always kept my private and professional life separate...
我總是將私生活和工作分開。
My private affairs are no one's business but my own.
我自己的事自己管，不用其他人操心。
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ADJ-GRADED
（想法、感覺）私密的，隱私的，內心的
Your private thoughts or feelings are ones that you do not talk about to other people.
例句
We all felt as if we were intruding on his private grief.
我們都覺得似乎觸及到了他內心的傷痛。
...the enactment of her private sexual fantasies...
她內心產生了性幻想
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ADJ
只有自己人明白的
You can use private to describe situations or activities that are understood only by the people involved in them, and not by anyone else.
例句
Chinese waiters stood in a cluster, sharing a private joke...
華人服務生們站在一起，講著只有他們自己才懂的笑話。
As many as 40 per cent of twins have a private language that excludes the rest of the family.
多達40％的雙胞胎都有自己的語言，其他家庭成員都聽不懂。
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ADJ-GRADED
（地方等）僻靜的，幽靜的，無人打擾的
If you describe a place as private, or as somewhere where you can be private, you mean that it is a quiet place and you can be alone there without being disturbed.
例句
It was the only reasonably private place they could find.
這是他們能找到的唯一一個還算僻靜之處。
...a very attractive country house set within a uniquely beautiful and private position...
坐落在風景獨特的僻靜之處的非常別致的鄉間別墅
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ADJ-GRADED
（人）內斂的，文靜內向的，孤僻的
If you describe someone as a private person, you mean that they are very quiet by nature and do not reveal their thoughts and feelings to other people.
例句
She has always been a rather private person...
她一直是一個相當內向的人。
Gould was an intensely private individual.
古德以前是個極為孤僻的人。
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ADJ
私人教授的；私下輔導的
You can use private to describe lessons that are not part of ordinary school activity, and which are given by a teacher to an individual pupil or a small group, usually in return for payment.
例句
Martial arts: Private lessons: ￡8 per hour.
武術：私人教授：每小時8英鎊
...Donald Tovey, who took her as his private pupil for the piano.
唐納德·托維，她的私人鋼琴老師
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N-COUNT; N-TITLE
列兵，二等兵（級別最低的士兵）
A private is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
例句
One gunner in each battery was an NCO and the rest were privates.
每個炮兵連都有一個炮手是軍士，其余都是二等兵。
...Private Martin Ferguson.
二等兵馬丁·費格森
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N-PLURAL
私處；陰部
Your privates are your genitals.
例句
You should wash your feet and your privates every day.
應該每天洗腳，并清洗陰部。
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PHRASE
私下地；秘密地
If you do something in private, you do it without other people being present, often because it is something that you want to keep secret.
例句
Some of what we're talking about might better be discussed in private.
我們要談論的一些事情最好是在私下里討論。