密か

ひそか【密か， 窃か， 秘か】

◇ → 密かな (窃かな 秘かな)

◇ → 密かに (窃かに 秘かに)

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ひそか【密か】

～な secret; private; stealthy; quiet; hushed; sneaking 《sympathy》.

●深夜の散歩が私のひそかな楽しみである. Going for late night walks is my secret pleasure in life.

・当時私は彼女にひそかな思いを寄せていた. At that time I was secretly in love with her.

密かに secretly; privately; stealthily; in secret [private]; by stealth; quietly; surreptitiously; on the sly.

●ひそかに咲いている花 unobtrusively blooming flowers

・心ひそかに in one's heart; privately; secretly; inwardly

・(かげで)ひそかに笑う laugh in [up] one's sleeve

・ひそかに喜ぶ chuckle to oneself

・ひそかに期待する secretly hope 《for…》

・ひそかに課長のいすをねらう secretly covet the section chief's position [job]

・ひそかに用意する have sth up one's sleeve

・ひそかに同情を抱いている have a sneaking sympathy 《with sb》

・その先生をひそかに慕っていた. I secretly adored [idolized] that teacher.

・心中ひそかに思うところがある. I have [harbor] an idea in [《英》 at the] back of my mind.

・二人はひそかに連絡を取り合っていた. The two of them had been in secret communication [contacting each other on the sly].