She had been nursing a secret desire to see him again.

她一直暗暗渴望再次见到他。

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I'm certainly not harboring a secret desire for the man, if that's what you are thinking.

如果你这样想的话，我告诉你我对那男人肯定没有不可告人的要求。

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But I am not harboring a secret desire that the recession arrives on my Parisian doorstep.

我并非想让大萧条来到巴黎人的门口。

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Perhaps a few members of Mr Hague's shadow cabinet harbour a secret desire to depart.

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The Left's default mode is to accuse Christian Zionists of a hidden agenda to convert Jews and a secret desire to see us killed in an Armageddon.

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Look around your own office and see the love and care lavished on these rectangle-faced machines with their aggressive manners and their secret desire to steal your job.

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