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You can picture secretly as a door kept shut: something is really happening, but you have arranged it so that nobody else can see it happening. The action is real and complete — it is only the knowing that is blocked. That one picture covers both meeting someone where no one will spot you and holding a feeling that never reaches your face.
可以想成有一道被關起來的門：事情真的在發生，但你把它安排在別人看不見的那一側。動作本身完整存在，被擋住的只是「別人知…更多收起
可以想成有一道被關起來的門：事情真的在發生，但你把它安排在別人看不見的那一側。動作本身完整存在，被擋住的只是「別人知道」這件事。這個畫面同時罩得住兩種情況——一種是行為藏起來（在沒人會撞見的地方見面），一種是心情藏起來（那個感覺一直在，只是沒讓它出現在臉上或話裡）。原始詞典資料1 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。
secretlyadv/ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/
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In secret, covertly.
- Mary cheated secretly in the test, and never got caught.
- Sometimes her prose hyperventilates ("Once, years ago, his and N.'s love for each other had glowed like phosphorescent fire on the surfaces of their bodies"), and she has a weakness for epiphanies ("There was a man, no longer young, though not yet old, who, traveling alone in northern Europe, began to feel that his soul was being drained slowly, almost secretly from him, drop by drop").
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。