They had advised us to keep it a secret, but we wanted it out in the open.

他们曾建议我们对其保密，但我们却想将它公之于众。

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The child I won't have will keep sleeping, curled in a secret corner of my mind.

我不想要的孩子会蜷缩在我心灵的一个秘密角落里继续睡觉。

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This process most distillers like to keep secret, as it is the first step in developing a characteristic flavour.

大多数酿酒人会对这个过程保密，因为这是酿造独特口味的第一步。

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Gere's character Miller has his own problems to deal with in Arbitrage: a mistress he's trying to keep secret from his wife, a hole in his company's balance sheet he's trying to hide from his investors, and a potential buy-out that looks on the verge of collapsing.

BBC: Richard Gere tackles the financial crisis

Some U.S. officials believe they will prevail in the courts if they choose to keep the drone program secret and refuse to provide any documents sought in the lawsuits.

WSJ: U.S. Rethinks Secrecy on Drone Program

One disadvantage to BP's approach is that university researchers won't keep their work secret, as in-house scientists might.

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