Dreye权威释义 | surreptitious

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秘密的；偷偷摸摸的；鬼鬼祟祟的
When no one was looking he took a surreptitious puff on his cigarette.
当没有人看时，他偷偷地抽了一口烟。

派生

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surreptitiously

辨析

同义参见:

private underhanded underground¹ significant

以上来源于：《英汉大辞典》

/ˌsʌrəpˈtɪʃəs/

adj.

covert or clandestine.

Derivative

surreptitiously adv.
surreptitiousness n.

Etymology

ME (in the sense ‘obtained by suppression of the truth’): from L. surreptitius (from surripere, from sub- ‘secretly’ + rapere ‘seize’) + -ous.

以上来源于：《简明牛津英语词典》