核心畫面
You can picture 'privacy' as a wall you can pull around yourself — a space where no one else can see you, hear you, or reach into your life. The basic picture is physical (being alone behind a closed door); from there it stretches to information (a wall around the facts about you that you don't want others looking behind).
可以想成你能拉到自己四周的一道牆——一個別人看不到、聽不到、也伸不進來的空間。最基本的畫面比較像實體的（關上門、一個…更多收起
可以想成你能拉到自己四周的一道牆——一個別人看不到、聽不到、也伸不進來的空間。最基本的畫面比較像實體的（關上門、一個人待著）；從這裡再延伸到資訊上（在「關於你的事」周圍築一道牆，不讓外人看到牆後面）。原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
privacynoun/ˈpɹɪv.ə.si/
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The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others.
- I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
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Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life.
- Those prying neighbours have robbed me of my sense of privacy.
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Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization.
- Trixie Channing: Good God. Is there no privacy? DCI Tom Barnaby: No, not in a murder case.
- Privacy is assumed by many to be among common-law rights.
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obsoleteA place of seclusion.
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obsoletelawA relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.
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obsoleteSecrecy.
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obsoleteA private matter.
- It ſeems more probable that Ovid vvas either the Confident of ſome other paſſion, or that he had ſtumbled by ſome inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia, and ſeen her in a Bath: […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。