in clandestine秘密地 privately私下地 secretly秘密地 in secret秘密地,暗地里 confidentially秘密地 in secrecy秘密地 例如:
The planning board of the finance division constantly meets behind closed doors, in case its negotiations become known in advance.财务司计划委员会经常闭门开会,以防事先知道其谈判情况。 解析:动名词 planning 作定语,表示名词 board 的用途 a planning board = a board for planning,意为“计划委员会”,注意此处的 planning 不是现在分词,因为现在分词表示的是名词的动作,board 发不出 plan 这个动作。 A lot of meetings are held behind closed doors in order to prevent the public from knowing what is discussed.许多会议都是秘密举行的,以防止公众知道讨论的内容。 解析:短语 a lot of 用来形容数量大,后面可以接可数名词或不可数名词,相比于用于正式书面语的 many 或 much,a lot of 一般用于非正式的场合。
My parents are having a lot of discussions behind closed doors. I think they know that I got into trouble at school.我父母正在秘密地进行很多的讨论。我想他们知道我在学校遇到麻烦了。 In order to keep the winner of the contest a secret, the voting happened behind closed doors.为了对比赛的胜利者保密,投票是秘密进行的。 解析:in order to 引导目的状语从句。 I don't trust any discussion that happens behind closed doors. I believe that everyone should have a say.我不相信任何闭门造车的讨论。我相信每个人都应该有发言权。
You never know what is said behind closed doors. You might think that someone is your friend but they could be saying bad things about you.你永远不知道别人背地里怎么说。你可能认为某人是你的朋友,但他们可能在说你的坏话。 解析:此句中情态动词 could 表示可能性。 每个人都有自己的隐私或是小秘密不想让别人知道,这是人之常情,但是如果是学习,那么我们不能闭门造车,要集思广益,不断创新。