英语释义

• hidden from general view or use;

  "a privy place to rest and think"

  "a secluded romantic spot"

  "a secret garden"

• a room equipped with toilet facilities

• a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

• (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known;

  "privy to the details of the conspiracy"

片语

sanitary privy卫生厕所

Privy Coucil枢密院

drop privy翻译

aqua privy乡村式厕所

privy council枢密院

Privy Councilor枢密院官员；智囊团

privy signet翻译

Privy Sea中英

英汉例句

• unless someone out there is hacking into your e-mail, and reading this, no one else should be privy to this matter, right?

  除非有人黑了你的邮箱，读了我们来往的邮件，不然他们不会知道内情的，对吧？

• both in london and washington, dc, ms lodhi was privy to insider information.

  无论在伦敦还是华盛顿，洛蒂女士都是知晓内情。

• i am not privy to any private information about the company, but i「ve said publicly that i admire the founders and the kind of business they have been able to build so quickly.

  我并不了解该公司的任何内幕，但我曾公开表示，对该公司创始人以及他们能如此迅速壮大起来的业务，我感到钦佩。

• this has angered some lawmakers who argue that the public should be privy to the information since the hong kong government is the biggest investor in the park.

  这种说法惹恼了一些立法者，他们提出公众对迪斯尼乐园游客数有知情权，因为香港政府是乐园最大的投资者。

• i’m not privy to any pending announcement, so calm down.

  我没有任何要想宣布的意思，所以请冷静。

• rulings from the london-based privy council, still the final court of appeal for most of the region, have made it much harder to use the noose.

  位于伦敦的枢密院，仍然是大多数地区的最高申诉法庭，在它的统治之下，绞刑更加难以执行。

• ms westwood was approached to design the gowns in 2007 after the college successfully petitioned the privy council for degree-awarding powers in its own right.

  维斯特伍德在2007年被请求设计学院袍服，因为伦敦国王学院在该年成功获得枢密院的许可，有权自行颁发学位。

• this can be a special, intimate, secret thing between couples that no one else is privy to – a touch, a look, a word, is all it should take.

  暗号–可以是情侣间特殊的，亲密的，私密的暗号，别人都不知道。抚摸，一个眼神，一句话，就够了。

• many retail investors shrug off the inherent disadvantage they face, with so many insiders privy to so much information that they are not.

  许多散户投资者对其面临的固有劣势置若罔闻，这么多业内人士提前获知他们所不知道的信息。

• the expression on this man’s face is intriguing, especially since we are not privy to the object of his vision.

  这名男子的脸上表情令人着迷，特别是当我们无法得知其眼中目标的时候。

• finally, they created the witan（council or meeting of the wisemen）to advise the king, the basis of the privy council which still exists today.

  最后，他们还创立了议会(贤人会议)，向国王提供建议，这就成为了今天仍存在的枢密院的基础。

• i was privy to the row at a european council meeting in 2002 when tony blair and jacques chirac went head-to-head over the impact of agricultural protectionism on poor african countries.

  2002年，我有幸以私人身份参加欧洲理事会会议，当时，托尼·布莱尔和雅克·希拉克正就农业保护主义对贫穷的非洲国家影响这个话题进行肉搏。

• thankfully, no one was privy to my intense internal debates about whether to include hand cream, or an extra pair of socks; they would have thought i’d lost my mind!

  幸好，没有人知道我内心激烈的天人交战，纠结于带护手霜还是带一双备用的袜子；否则别人可能会认为我已经神志不清了。

• pigs eat meat – a pig would happily eat a human – but most of the pork we」re privy to was raised on corn or horrible chemicals rather than other pigs and dead people.

  猪吃肉——一头猪要能吃到人肉会乐开花——不过我们见到的多数生猪肉是靠玉米和骇人的化学饲料催肥的，可不是靠吃其它的猪和人的尸体。

• dick fuld, lehman’s boss at the time of its bankruptcy (who was also admonished by the examiner), insisted that the sec and the federal reserve 「were privy to everything as it was happening」.

  雷曼破产时的老板，迪克? 富尔德（曾被监管者告诫）坚称美国证券交易委员会(sec)和美联储「在每件事发生时都心知肚明」。

• i’m privy to sensitive financial information like salaries, and didn’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable or wonder if i might be sharing information with michael.

  我不会透露诸如工资等敏感的财务信息，不想让别人感觉不舒服或者猜想我是不是和迈克尔共享信息。

• privy to superior information, banks can charge hefty fees and drive up their own profits at the expense of clients who are induced to take on risks they don’t fully understand—a form of rent seeking.

  由于信息不对称，银行可以收取大额的费用，并通过客户支付费用抬高他们自己的收益，而客户在完全不知情的情况下被诱导而承担风险——这是一种寻租形式。

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