intimate
音標(biāo)：
美音：/??nt?m?t/，英音：/??nt?m?t/

聽聽基本釋意：

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外刊例句：
Dear Miss Manners: My niece was recently married for the second time, and because she had a formal wedding the first time, she chose to have a small, intimate ceremony in her garden this time.
尊敬的Manners小姐：我的侄女最近第二次結(jié)婚，因?yàn)榈谝淮问钦降幕槎Y，所以這次她選擇在自家花園舉行一個(gè)小型的、親密的儀式。
—Washington Post

The profile provides an unusually intimate view of Oe’s life, including his tense relationship with the novelist Yukio Mishima, and hints at the political activities he would undertake in later years.
該簡介提供了對(duì)大江生平的不同尋常的親密看法，包括他與小說家三島由紀(jì)夫的緊張關(guān)系，并暗示了他晚年將從事的政治活動(dòng)。
—Washington Post

Multiple lawyers are involved, partly because of an alleged “intimate video” of Leviss that tipped off Madix to the affair, and cast members have said they received warnings about distributing it.
多名律師參與其中，部分原因是據(jù)稱李維斯的一段“親密視頻”向麥迪克斯泄露了這件事，演員們表示他們收到了分發(fā)該視頻的警告。
—Washington Post

基本釋意：
adjective
marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
adj. 親密的；個(gè)人的，隱私的；溫馨的，幽靜舒適的；詳盡的，精通的；密切的，緊密的；有性關(guān)系的，曖昧的

同義詞：
familiar,sexual,knowledgeable,versed,inner,internal,cozy,informal,confidant,suggest,adumbrate,insinuate

短釋義：
Intimate means being close. A small restaurant is called intimate because you’re sitting close to the other people, and your best friends are considered your intimate friends.
親密意味著親近。一家小餐館被稱為親密的，因?yàn)槟阕秒x其他人很近，你最好的朋友被認(rèn)為是你的親密朋友。

長釋義：
This adjective can mean very friendly, or very personal or private. The original spelling was intime, from French, from Latin intimus “innermost,” from intus “within.” The related verb intimate means to hint or suggest. Intimate is also a noun meaning a close friend or associate. You might intimate to your intimates that you want to leave a boring party.
這個(gè)形容詞可以表示非常友好，也可以表示非常私密。最初的拼寫是 intime，來自法語，來自拉丁語 intimus“最里面”，來自 intus“內(nèi)部”。相關(guān)動(dòng)詞親密的意思是暗示或建議。親密也是一個(gè)名詞，意思是親密的朋友或同事。你可能會(huì)告訴你的密友你想離開一個(gè)無聊的聚會(huì)。

文學(xué)例句：
It was a routine of theirs, one that felt normal and intimate.
這是他們的例行公事，感覺正常而親密。
—Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

This meant not only that we were learning, in a real way, how to cohabit as a couple but also that Barack got to know my family in a more intimate way.
這不僅意味著我們正在以一種真正的方式學(xué)習(xí)如何作為夫妻同居，而且還意味著貝拉克以更親密的方式了解我的家人。
—Becoming by Michelle Obama

This time her voice is confiding, as if she’s talking about something intimate that only she and I know about and agree on.
這一次她的聲音很傾訴，就好像她在談?wù)撘恍┲挥兴臀抑啦⑼獾挠H密事情。
—Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

詞源：
intimate?(adj.)1630s, “closely acquainted, very familiar,” also “inmost, intrinsic,” from Late Latin intimatus, past participle of intimare “make known, announce, impress,” from Latin intimus “inmost, innermost, deepest” (adj.), also used figuratively, of affections, feelings, as a noun, “close friend;” superlative of in “in” (from PIE root *en “in”). Intimate (adj.) used euphemistically in reference to women’s underwear from 1904. Related: Intimately.Related entries & more

下面是詞源的翻譯（機(jī)器翻譯比較難翻，參考著看）
intimate (adj.)1630s，“非常熟悉，非常熟悉”，也是“最內(nèi)在的，內(nèi)在的”，來自晚期拉丁語 intimatus，intimare 的過去分詞“讓知道，宣布，留下深刻印象”，來自拉丁語 intimus “最內(nèi)在，最深，最深” (adj.)，也比喻性地用作名詞，表示感情、感情，“親密的朋友”； in “in” 的最高級(jí)（來自 PIE 根 *en “in”）。自 1904 年以來，Intimate（形容詞）委婉地指代女性內(nèi)衣。相關(guān)：Intimately.Related entries & more