1be privy to somethingSECRETsharing in the knowledge of facts that are secret 了解某事的内情,私下知晓某事
Colby was privy to the committee’s decisions.
科尔比知晓委员会的秘密决定。
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be privy to something• I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy, as both had known him during the First World War.• Secondly, she would not be privy to any information contained in those letters.• Earl, a classmate of North's from the NavalAcademy, was privy to quite a lot, including the diversion.
DHTBBa toilet, especially one outside a house in a small separate building 〔尤指室外的〕厕所
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privy• In the boarding house he had lived in there was a privy in the backyard.• Chamber 46 is a bathroom with two baths, and chambers 47 and 48 are privies.• I was replacing a Framus flat-top, built like a brickprivy.• Each campsite had an outdoorprivy, rustic but clean.• By now the rain had stopped, though there was no sign of the pirateprivy.• The privy fell forward, landing door-down.• Criss-crossed glimpses of the rooftops of tinprivies.
Originprivy2
(1100-1200)Old Frenchprivé, from Latinprivatus; → PRIVATE1