Companies can choose whether to be public or private.

公司可以选择上市或私营公司模式

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Marriage could be completely private or completely done away with whatsoever.

婚姻完全可以私下完成，或者我们根本就不需要婚姻这回事。

发挥创造力的瞬间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So 90% of your portfolio is in domestic marketable securities and only 10% is invested in things like real estate or venture capital or private equity -hardly enough to make a difference in terms of the portfolios returns.

于是90%的投资都在本国有价证券中,仅10%用于比如不动产,风险资本或私募股权投资,这一小块几乎对投资回报,没有什么作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Not Milton himself would cry up liberty to poor female slaves or plead for the lawfulness or resisting a private tyranny.

即便米尔顿本人也不愿为那些女奴的自由所呼号,辩解，或是反对这种私底下的暴行“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I worked on specifically, I looked at -and this is also the reason why it's difficult to say what is a just university, because we didn't just look at Princeton, we didn't just look at Ivy League Schools or at least private institutions.

我专门研究的是,顺便，这也是为什么,为公正的大学下定义很难得原因，因为我们研究的不仅仅是普林斯顿大学，也不仅仅是常青藤学校,至少不是私人学校。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But Plato's Republic recognizes no such separation or no such independence for a private sphere.

但柏拉图的《理想国》并未体认到这种区隔,或是这种私人领域的自主性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And if you're sharing a particularly decent amount of code, you should definitely submit it as private, or if easier, you can email help at cs50.net.

当你分享了一些相当好的代码量,也可以私下提交，或者更简单点，发邮件到cs50，net寻求帮助。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

How does Socrates answer these charges of, in a way being not just an abstainer but he kept putting his own private moral conscience or integrity over and above the law?

苏格拉底如何回答这些指控，不只是以一种疏离的角度,虽然他持续让,自身的道德感或正直,凌驾法律之上？

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