intimate
音标：
美音：/ˈɪntɪmət/，英音：/ˈɪntɪmət/
听听基本释意：
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结婚，因为第一次是正式的婚礼，所以这次她选择在自家花园举行一个小型的、亲密的仪式。
—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.
该简介提供了对大江生平的不同寻常的亲密看法，包括他与小说家三岛由纪夫的紧张关系，并暗示了他晚年将从事的政治活动。
—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.
多名律师参与其中，部分原因是据称李维斯的一段“亲密视频”向麦迪克斯泄露了这件事，演员们表示他们收到了分发该视频的警告。
—Washington Post
基本释意：
adjective
marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
adj. 亲密的；个人的，隐私的；温馨的，幽静舒适的；详尽的，精通的；密切的，紧密的；有性关系的，暧昧的
同义词：
familiar,sexual,knowledgeable,versed,inner,internal,cozy,informal,confidant,suggest,adumbrate,insinuate
短释义：
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.
亲密意味着亲近。一家小餐馆被称为亲密的，因为你坐得离其他人很近，你最好的朋友被认为是你的亲密朋友。
长释义：
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.
这个形容词可以表示非常友好，也可以表示非常私密。最初的拼写是 intime，来自法语，来自拉丁语 intimus“最里面”，来自 intus“内部”。相关动词亲密的意思是暗示或建议。亲密也是一个名词，意思是亲密的朋友或同事。你可能会告诉你的密友你想离开一个无聊的聚会。
文学例句：
It was a routine of theirs, one that felt normal and intimate.
这是他们的例行公事，感觉正常而亲密。
—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.
这不仅意味着我们正在以一种真正的方式学习如何作为夫妻同居，而且还意味着贝拉克以更亲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.
这一次她的声音很倾诉，就好像她在谈论一些只有她和我知道并同意的亲密事情。
—Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
词源：
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
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
intimate (adj.)1630s，“非常熟悉，非常熟悉”，也是“最内在的，内在的”，来自晚期拉丁语 intimatus，intimare 的过去分词“让知道，宣布，留下深刻印象”，来自拉丁语 intimus “最内在，最深，最深” (adj.)，也比喻性地用作名词，表示感情、感情，“亲密的朋友”； in “in” 的最高级（来自 PIE 根 *en “in”）。自 1904 年以来，Intimate（形容词）委婉地指代女性内衣。相关：Intimately.Related entries & more
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