privacy
/ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/ 名词 B1中文: 隐私
- The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others. · I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.
- Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life. · Those prying neighbours have robbed me of my sense of privacy.
- Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization. · Privacy is assumed by many to be among common-law rights.
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Sherlock Holmes was a past-master in the art of putting a humble witness at his ease, and very soon, in the privacy of Godfrey Staunton’s abandoned room, he had extracted all that the porter had to tell.
'You have made a most damnable intrusion into the privacy of our family.
Then the pen of the clerk ceased to move over the paper; he raised his head, and appearing to be perfectly sure of privacy:
Researchers discovered that when individuals feel stripped of their privacy, they tend to withdraw socially as a defensive coping mechanism.
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