meant to be kept secret and not told to or shared with other people 机密的;保密的;秘密的 confidential information/documents 机密情报/文件 Your medical records are strictly confidential (= completely secret). 你的病历是绝对保密的。
Extra ExamplesThe affair must be kept confidential. 这件事必须保密。 The findings are strictly confidential. 这些发现绝对机密。 commercially confidential data 商业上的机密数据 Employees are fully aware that they are not to use confidential information for the purposes of insider dealing. 员工充分意识到他们不能将机密信息用于内幕交易。 The envelope says it is private and confidential. 信封上写着“私人机密”。 There is concern about several confidential documents which have gone missing. 人们对丢失的几份机密文件感到担忧。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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(of a way of speaking )说话的方式 showing that what you are saying is private or secret 隐密的;秘密的 - [only before noun] (formal)
trusted with private or secret information 受信任的;委以机密的 a confidential secretary 机要秘书