clandestine

英 [klænˈdestɪn]

美 [klænˈdestɪn]

adj.  暗中从事的; 保密的; 秘密的

TOEFLGRETEM8法律

Collins.1 / BNC.14415 / COCA.11864

牛津词典

adj.

• 暗中从事的；保密的；秘密的
  done secretly or kept secret
  1. a clandestine meeting/relationship
     秘密会议 / 关系

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (通常因违法而)偷偷摸摸的，暗地里的，秘密的
  Something that isclandestineis hidden or kept secret, often because it is illegal.
  1. ...their clandestine meetings.
     他们的秘密会晤

英英释义

adj

• conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
  1. clandestine intelligence operations
  2. cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
  3. hole-and-corner intrigue
  4. secret missions
  5. a secret agent
  6. secret sales of arms
  7. surreptitious mobilization of troops
  8. an undercover investigation
  9. underground resistance
  Synonym:cloak-and-daggerhole-and-corner(a)hugger-muggerhush-hushsecretsurreptitiousundercoverunderground

双语例句

• They started clandestine activities against the election.
  他们暗地里活动，以反对这次的选举。
• The early Christians held clandestine meetings in caves.
  早期的基督徒在洞穴中秘密聚会。
• What are you finding to be the biggest differences being an entrepreneur from being in the clandestine services?
  你觉得做企业和情报工作的最大区别在哪？
• He has his sights on the farming, building and catering sectors in an effort to prevent employers exploiting clandestine workers and to reduce people trafficking.
  在防止雇主盘剥黑工、减少人口贩卖行为的行动中，佛拉蒂尼将目光锁定在了农业、建筑业和餐饮业。
• Others confess very bad sins, like killing someone during a clandestine government operation.
  其他人则忏悔深重的罪孽，比如在秘密的政府行动中谋杀某人。
• She is the director of clandestine operations of the CIA.
  她是中央情报局秘密行动的负责人。
• To support its deadly biological and chemical weapons programs, Iraq procures needed items from around the world using an extensive clandestine network.
  为了支持其生化武器计划，伊拉克使用扩展的秘密网络从世界各地获得其所需要的东西。
• A mouse leads a clandestine life below the ground.
  一只耗子能够引向地底之下的秘密生命。
• Declassified documents from the 1970s provide new evidence that federal officials believed bomb-grade uranium that disappeared from a Pennsylvania nuclear facility in the 1960s was likely taken for use in a clandestine Israeli atomic-weapons program.
  20世纪70年代的解密文件提供了新的证据，表明美国联邦官员相信，上世纪60年代在美国宾夕法尼亚州核设施丢失的核弹级铀很可能被用于以色列的秘密原子武器计划。
• The clandestine owner of the existing session the hacker can, at this point, record and exploit data that is transferred between the new user and the server as long as the session remains active.
  现有会话的秘密所有者那个黑客此时能够记录和利用在新用户和服务器之间传输的数据，前提是会话保持活动。