intimate的意思|intimate的解释-里氏词典

Intimate \In"ti*mate\, a. [Formerly intime, L. intimus, a
superl. corresponding to the compar. interior: cf. F. intime.
The form intimate is due to confusion with intimate, v. t.
See {Interior}.]
1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. ``I knew
from intimate impulse.'' --Milton.

2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.

He was honored with an intimate and immediate
admission. --South.

3. Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar;
confidential; as, an intimate friend.

Syn: Familiar; near; friendly; confidential.

Intimate \In"ti*mate\, n.
An intimate friend or associate; a confidant. --Gov. of the
Tongue.

Intimate \In"ti*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Intimated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Intimating}.] [L. intimatus, p. p. of intimare to
put, bring, drive, or press into, to announce, make known,
from intimus the inmost. See {Intimate}, a.]
1. To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to
make known. [Obs.]

He, incontinent, did proclaim and intimate open war.
--E. Hall.

So both conspiring 'gan to intimate
Each other's grief. --Spenser.

2. To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely;
to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his
intention of resigning his office.

The names of simple ideas and substances, with the
abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real
existence, from which was derived their original
pattern. --Locke.

She is not, of course, Charles Mackerras or Bernard Haitink or Mark Elder; she brings her own eager rush to the score, but one misses Janacek's serene warmth and breadth (and any intimate rapport with the singers).
Recently, Mr. Churpek had to listen patiently as a self-professed psychic rambled on about his knowledge of "intimate phenomena" and his telepathic ability to find missing persons.
McGegan caught the music's essential lyricism, and the 'period' instruments - beautiful winds - sounded smooth in the theatre's intimate acoustics. The Festival runs until September 9.
"They always operate in very short-term installments," says a U.S. executive with intimate ties to the Saudi regime.
Three levels of galleries fronted by thin wooden rails encircle a large thrust stage in a space that is at once expansive and intimate.
A dating service secretly recorded its clients as they disclosed the intimate details of their love lives, according to a lawsuit.
There are other, much more intimate stagings. I will report later in May on further offerings of this festival.
Silver praised Hockney's latest creation as "a tremendous achievement and a real development in the world of art." "I think Hockney has humanized technology and made it more intimate," he said.
As Simpson argued last week, design is, in every sense, a multi-disciplinary team activity with intimate connections to quality, marketing and production.
Even more intimate is the Restaurant de la Paz, where the tables are set with the owner's own solid silver cutlery. Newly fashionable among carnivorous Bolivians is the Brazilian-style meat restaurant Brasargent (fixed price; all the meat you can eat).
VF also makes sportswear, intimate apparel, uniforms and children's wear.
His basic structure, of a curved and tiered colonnade broken by a central stair, is handsome, and the stage space is varied - for Juliet's bedroom; for the Capulet tomb - to provide a more intimate, rectangular dance area.
The sexual energies are kept hidden, but emerge in the intimate ballads, 'What is a Man?'
Like so many before them, they were seduced by the monumental breadth of the Grosses Festspielhaus stage, diluting the opera's intimate atmosphere in decor of architectural vastness.
Kobel said the two met with Ms. Sharp and she revealed an intimate knowledge of the cocaine smuggling operation.
"I don't think he's there forever," one presidential intimate says of the staff chief.
There is an extended treatment of the Eulenburg affair, an intimate of the Kaiser brought to trial for homosexuality.
There remains considerable uncertainty as to what constitutes intimate contact.
Another woman who had a longtime intimate relationship with Holmes and asked not to be identified said he made a similar admission to her, the newspaper said.
But you might run into trouble with that in South America," where an expensive gift could be perceived as too intimate, Klatsky said.
An "intimate relationship" with a woman lay minister who claims another priest fathered her child led to the resignation of Atlanta Archbishop Eugene A. Marino, the nation's highest-ranking black Roman Catholic.
Spencer, long a Reagan intimate, is a savvy strategist who has been at Reagan's side in most of his political decisions.
But there is just no evidence for any such intimate connection between deficits and inflation.
They tend to be richly painted and rather intimate in scale and feeling-contemplative rather than dramatic, and sensuous rather than showy.
The unshowy musicianship that marks his performances of the classics would seem to make him a natural resident of an intimate hall like this.
As musician, he engaged his players in conversation that ranged from intimate to vigorous.
The racketeering allegations were made by actress Roseanne Barr after the tabloid newspaper printed an intimate letter she wrote to her husband, actor and producer Tom Arnold.
Second-quarter sales from VF's intimate apparel division have also been "exceptionally strong," powered by VF's Vassarette unit.
Our final view of Nixon (as opposed to the real Mr. Nixon) is an intimate one.
The film, based on a novel by Criena Rohan, calls for Minogue to play several intimate love scenes.

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