backstairs

1 If they take too much, they will go up by the backstairs to bed.’

2 This backstairs knowledge does the trick for him.

3 "Wait, wait, you backstairs prima donna," he hissed, growing pale with rage.

4 I had been hoping to avoid it by sitting on the backstairs.

5 What do he and his son, James, now head of UK operations, get from backstairs political schmoozing?

6 "And backstairs sniping, whichever side it comes from, shows that something is wrong and there's been too much of that backstairs sniping."

7 In the mid-1800s, members of the Wood family and their guests used the grander front staircase, and the backstairs were used by servants responsible for many of the household tasks.

8 “For 21 there is one thing certain: that this Gondremark has one foot in the Court backstairs, and the other in the Masons’ lodges.

9 She was growing significant in the backstairs of politics.

10 Next to it was his study, where he wrote by the light of a single candle and received the “common” people through the backstairs, which he also used to come and go unnoticed.

11 Yes, this is a piece about a headstrong young woman and her ideas, but it is more vividly about passion, betrayal and backstairs intrigue.

12 When Mr. Lincoln is cornered, then he makes a Brigadier or a Major General, according to circumstances and in obedience to political or to backstairs influence.

13 And the sliding door that stylist still changes backstairs into a whole, the daylighting of the kitchen is better, look also more atmosphere.

而且设计师还把厨房门改成一整片的推拉门，厨房的采光更好，看起来也更大气。

14 Compared with that, this solitary backstairs arrival seemed tame and dispiriting, and he half regretted that he had not postponed his coming till to-morrow, even in the face of Dr Ponsford’s suggestion.

15 When the National Trust took over the Bankes family home it also took on its contents, including the huge oil painting on the backstairs known as Apollo and the Muses.

16 I pushed through the two fire doors that lead to the service hallway and the backstairs, where I took a seat just outside the kitchen door.

17 He met the congressmen in secret to exert backstairs influence.

他秘密会见了议员,暗中对他施加影响。

18 Momma and I followed that lane to the backstairs of Dentist Lincoln’s office.

19 I do not believe in backstairs diplomacy any more than Dr. Hollweg.

20 Do these backstairs formulators and managers of United States opinion and governmental policies have more respect for the UN than they have for the US?

1 秘密

q.t. close inside private dark cabinet closed underground closet covert occult arcane esoteric secretive cryptic subterranean clandestine backdoor underarm backstreet underhanded furtive hush-hush recondite hugger-mugger teteatete backstage inwardly secret privacy confidence mystery silence secrecy privity arcanum in secrecy to oneself in privacy between ourselves under a bushel under the rose by stealth under night hidden intimate confidential shady undercover shadowy stealthy backroom underhand closed-door hole-and-corner secretly on the q.t on the quiet behind closeddoors behind the scenes in secret in confidence on the sly under the counter by the back door in camera sub-rosa pocket quiet chamber bye classified snug behind-the-scenes unpublished privy hermetic sneaking surreptitious hid unrevealed unbreathed undivulged privately darkly privily under-the-counter reserve reservation stealth mysticism by- dern on the cuff for the cuff under hat just quietly under cover behind closed doors among ourselves

2 秘密的

quiet sneaky close Black private secret underground closet sneak backstage covert arcane privy secretive subterranean clandestine furtive hush-hush hugger-mugger hole-and-corner crypto- backstreet sub rosa inside cabinet closed occult esoteric cryptic backdoor underarm underhanded recondite teteatete under a bushel under night hidden intimate confidential shady undercover shadowy stealthy backroom underhand closed-door sub-rosa dark pocket chamber bye classified snug behind-the-scenes unpublished hermetic sneaking surreptitious hid unrevealed unbreathed undivulged under-the-counter by- dern for the cuff

3 中伤的

scandalous injurious invidious sycophantic

4 阴谋

design scheme plot politics conspiracy intrigue concoction sham cabal machination designing frame-up practice machinate conspiratorial cloak-and-dagger angle scheming skulduggery

5 暗中的

underground covert sneaking under-the-counter

6 背地里

behind the scenes behind back on the sly

7 幕后的

behind-the-scenes offstage back room backroom backstreet

8 阴险

subtle sinister feline dishonest sly insidious designing serpentine underhand catty snaky Mephistophelian guileful cattish hole-and-corner Jesuitic subtlety blackness guile foulness jesuitry

9 私下的

private intimate confidential clandestine surreptitious hugger-mugger off the record

10 阴险的

subtle sinister feline dishonest sly insidious designing serpentine underhand catty snaky Mephistophelian guileful cattish hole-and-corner Jesuitic

11 不正当

wrong inappropriate illicit crooked backdoor unwarranted devious lowdown sleazy unjustifiable sleaze

12 幕后

behind-the-scenes offstage back room

13 暗中

underground covert sneaking under-the-counter on the downlow in secret

14 不正当的

wrong inappropriate illicit crooked backdoor unwarranted devious lowdown sleazy unjustifiable

15 中伤

scandalous injurious invidious sycophantic calumny mud scandal smear mayhem slur muck defamation libel name-calling vilification aspersion malediction sycophancy schmear reflect blacken hack belie malign vilify defame scandalize traduce calumniate asperse a stab in the back whistle down the wind breathe on

16 暗地里

behind closeddoors