privy

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priv·y1 /ˈprɪvi/ adjectiveadj

1 be privy to something SECRETsharing 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。

Examples from the Corpus

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 Naval Academy, was privy to quite a lot, including the diversion.

2. old useSECRET secret and private 秘密的，私下的

—privily adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

privy• It is a soiled and puckered hem, the golden treasury's privy purse.• His access to patronage, too, was gained through privy Seal connections.• I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy, as both had known him during the First World War.• Earl, a classmate of North's from the Naval Academy, was privy to quite a lot, including the diversion.• And if he had made that boast, would it have remained privy to the colleagues?• On the front lines, the infantrymen were not privy to the intelligence part of the missions that we went on.• For the most part, citizens were neither involved in nor privy to this process.

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