| 词汇 | secret |
| 词源 | secret; secretary. Advisers who handled confidential matters in medieval Europe were called secretarii, their name itself de- riving from the Latin secretum, “secret.” By 1400, we find the word being written as secretary, but it is not until Queen Eliza- beth I’s time that secretary was used as a synonym for a minister or cabinet member of the government. Secretary first began to be used in its modern sense of a private assistant to an individ- ual in the early 19th century. |
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