tete-a-tete

• n. 促膝谈心；两人间的私下谈话
• adj. 两人私下的；面对面的
• adv. 面对面地；两人私下地

1. a private conversation between two people

2. small sofa that seats two people

The two women had a tete - a - tete in the corner.

两名妇女在角落里私下谈话.

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The tete - a - tete was decorous in the extreme.

这次私下会面极为体面.

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They dined tete - a tete.

他们两人在一起用餐.

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They had dinner tete - a - tete.

他俩私下一起进餐.

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By now we are tete - a - tete.

这会儿我们已经 面对面 的谈话了.

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来自法语 tete-a-tete,头对头，来自古法语 teste,头，词源同 test,陶罐，检验，俚语义头。

tete-a-tete (n.)

"a private meeting," from French tête-à-tête, literally "head-to-head," from Old French teste "head" (see tete). The adjective, "private, confidential, with none present but the persons concerned" is recorded from 1728; as an adverb from 1790.