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confidential

adjective
🔊/ˌkɒnfɪˈdenʃl/
🔊/ˌkɑːnfɪˈdenʃl/
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  1. meant to be kept secret and not told to or shared with other people机密的；保密的；秘密的
    • confidential information/documents机密情报／文件
    • Your medical records are strictly confidential (= completely secret).你的病历是绝对保密的。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • The affair must be kept confidential.这件事必须保密。
    • The findings are strictly confidential.这些发现绝对机密。
    • commercially confidential data商业上的机密数据
    • Employees are fully aware that they are not to use confidential information for the purposes of insider dealing.员工充分意识到，他们不得出于内幕交易目的使用机密信息。
    • The envelope says it is private and confidential.信封上写着“私人机密”。
    • There is concern about several confidential documents which have gone missing.人们担心丢失了一些机密文件。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • remain
    • consider something as
    • …
    adverb
    • highly
    • absolutely
    • completely
    • …
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  2. (of a way of speaking说话的方式) showing that what you are saying is private or secret隐密的；秘密的
    • He spoke in a confidential tone, his voice low.他低声用隐秘的语气说话。🔊🔊
  3. [only before noun] (formal) trusted with private or secret information受信任的；委以机密的
    • a confidential secretary机要秘书