If an industry or service is privately owned, it is controlled by an individual person or a commercial company, rather than by the state or an official organization.
No other European country had so much state ownership and so few privately owned businesses.
没有哪个其他欧洲国家有这么多国有企业,而只有这么点儿私有企业。
She was privately educated at schools in Ireland and Paris.
她在爱尔兰和巴黎的学校受过私立教育。
If people meet or discuss things privately, they do so without involving or giving information to other people.
Few senior figures have issued any public statements but privately the resignation's been welcomed.
几乎没有高层人物发表过任何公开声明,但私底下都为这次辞职窃喜。
If you think or feel something privately, you do not talk about to other people about your thoughts or feelings.
Privately, she worries about whether she's really good enough.
私下里,她担心自己是不是真的够好。
If you buy or sell something privately, you buy it from or sell it to another person directly, rather than in a store or through a business.
The whole process makes buying a car privately as painless as buying from a garage.
这整个过程使得从私人手里买车和从汽车行买一样轻松。