in private
  私下地,在不公開的場合
  Pri·vate n.
  1. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. [Obs.]
  2. Personal interest; particular business.[Obs.]
     Nor must I be unmindful of my private.   --B. Jonson.
  3. Privacy; retirement. [Archaic] “Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private.”
  4. One not invested with a public office. [Archaic]
     What have kings, that privates have not too?   --Shak.
  5. Mil. A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
  6. pl. The private parts; the genitals.
  In private, secretly; not openly or publicly.
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  in private
       adv : kept private or confined to those intimately concerned; "it
             was discussed privately between the two men";
             "privately, she thought differently"; "some member of
             his own party hoped privately for his defeat"; "he was
             questioned in private" [syn: privately, in camera]
             [ant: publicly]