Clandestine

(adj.) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; 'clandestine intelligence operations'; 'cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines'; 'hole-and-corner intrigue'; 'secret missions'; 'a secret agent'; 'secret sales of arms'; 'surreptitious mobilization of troops'; 'an undercover investigation'; 'underground resistance' .

整理:凯瑟琳

• It was not an Opera night, and no one was giving a party, so that Beaufort's outing was undoubtedly of a clandestine nature. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• If it could not be done with Mr. Mills's sanction and concurrence, I besought a clandestine interview in the back kitchen where the Mangle was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• His embarkation was clandestine; and if we may credit a tale of the Princess Anna, he passed the hostile sea closely secreted in a coffin. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By favouring this clandestine escape he preserves a shew of consistency to his followers; but mercy is far from his heart. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Some suspicion of clandestine meetings haunted his mind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Clandestine and occasional vice is beyond all measurement. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The whole amorphous field of clandestine vice will, of course, defeat any census. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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