surreptitious
surreptitious 英 [ˌsʌrəpˈtɪʃəs] 美 [ˌsɜrəpˈtɪʃəs]
adj. 秘密的；鬼鬼祟祟的；暗中的
- When someone behaves in a surreptitious way, they're being secretive. They're doing something that they don't want to be seen doing.
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- adj. 秘密的；鬼鬼祟祟的；暗中的
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1. The Chamber believed all these grass-roots organizations were working in concert with the surreptitious backing of major unions.
商会认为所有这些民间组织在主要工会的暗中支持下沆瀣一气。
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2. As the surreptitious tracking of Internet users becomes more aggressive and widespread, tiny start-ups and technology giants alike are pushing a new product: privacy.
着秘密追踪互联网用户的行为变得越来越激烈和普遍，一些小型初创公司和科技业巨头都在推出一种新产品：隐私。
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3. In the early days of the arms supply pact, Israel could argue that many Western countries, including the United States, had similar surreptitious relationships with the apartheid regime.
在武器供应合同签署的初期，以色列可能会争辩说许多西方国家，包括美国曾与南非种族隔离政权有类似的秘密关系。
- surreptitious (adj.) mid-15c., from Latin surrepticius "stolen, furtive, clandestine," from surreptus, past participle of surripere "seize secretly, take away, steal, plagiarize," from assimilated form of sub "from under" (hence, "secretly;" see sub-) + rapere "to snatch" (see rapid). Related: Surreptitiously.
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