open secret

1. N-COUNT 公开的秘密
   If you refer to something as an open secret, you mean that it is supposed to be a secret, but many people know about it.
   1. It's an open secret that the security service bugged telephones.
      安全部门窃听电话是人人皆知的秘密。

1. It's an open secret that the security service bugged telephones.
   安全部门窃听电话是人人皆知的秘密。
2. It's the open secret that nobody in government wants to talk about: That cherished presidential signature that's tucked away in a scrapbook or framed for all to see might never have passed under the president's hand.
   这是美国政府内部一个公开的秘密，但没有人愿意谈及：很多人收藏在剪贴簿，或者装裱起来供众人欣赏的总统签名可能是自动签名机代劳的。
3. Mr. Su's presidential ambitions have been an open secret in the Taiwanese political scene.
   苏贞昌希望当总统的抱负一直是台湾政界一个公开的秘密。
4. Eg. he hopes against hope that no one would know the open secret.
   他痴心妄想，但愿谁也不会知道这个公开的秘密。
5. The open secret of violating a taboo with language that through its richness, wit or rage acknowledges the taboo is that it represents a kind of moralizing.
   用承认禁忌存在的语言――通过丰富的语义、机智或愤怒――来违反某个禁忌，公开的秘密在于它代表着某种道德说教。
6. It is also an open secret that a share of doctor-approved buyers do not have plausible medical needs.
   部分经医生允许的购买者并无医疗上的合理需要，这已是公开的秘密。
7. At present, Yin Yiping licentious excesses, sex predators have become the province's an open secret that the telecommunications employees.
   目前，殷一平荒淫无度、好色成性已成为全省电信员工中公开的秘密。
8. It's an open secret that the rebels are receiving support from the neigh-bouring coutry's government.
   这些国内反叛者正得到邻国政府的支持，这是公开的秘密。
9. It was an open secret that illegal miners enjoyed political cover bought with illicit donations.
   非法矿商通过不正当捐赠享受着政治掩护，这已经是一个公开的秘密。
10. The fact is an open secret to the few.
    那事实对少数人是一种公开的秘密。
11. To obtain major grants in China, it is an open secret that doing good research is not as important as schmoozing with powerful bureaucrats and their favorite experts.
    在中国，为了获得重大项目，一个公开的秘密就是：做好的研究还不如与官员和他们赏识的专家拉关系重要。
12. The US has been made out as the chief bad guy, but here is an open secret: most of the world's significant operators have been motivated by self-interest.
    美国已被视为首恶，但有一个公开的秘密：全球多数重要国家都受到自身利益的驱使。
13. The open secret is that everyone infringes everyone else's patents in some way.
    每个人都或多或少侵犯了他人的专利，这已经是公开的秘密。
14. It's an open secret around the office that they're having an affair.
    他们俩私通在办公室是一个公开的秘密。
15. Their love affair is an open secret.
    他们的风流韵事是公开的秘密。
16. The formula of success is an open secret to all outstanding enterprises in japan, that is, talents.
    对日本最卓越的企业而言，成功并没有什么不传之秘，唯一真正的关键只有一个，那就是人才。
17. They had been discreet, but in a closed community like theirs the gossip spread quickly, and their relationship had been an open secret long before the first time they touched or kissed in public.
    他们很谨慎，而在这人员较少的团体里闲话很快传开，但远早在公开爱抚或接吻前，他们间已成了公开的秘密。
18. Their wedding was an open secret.
    他们的婚礼是公开的秘密。
19. It is an open secret that some Commission members who are employers or top executives have reservations about setting it at$ 33 an hour.
    临时最低工资委员会部分有雇主和高级行政人员身分的委员，对于时薪订在33元有保留，是公开秘密。
20. It can be said with certainty that it is an "open secret" that most hospitals and doctors accept sales commissions.
    毫无疑问，多数医院和医生都在收取回扣，这是一个公开的秘密。
21. It's an open secret that his firm is going bankrupt.
    他公司即将破产一事已是公开的秘密。
22. It is an open secret that he has just become engaged.
    他刚刚订婚，这是一个公开的秘密。
23. It is an open secret in political circles that some African leaders are also intimated by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who remained a staunch ally of Col Gaddafi until his death.
    一些非洲领导同时也遭受津巴布韦总统罗伯特穆加贝的威胁，这在政界已是公开的秘密。穆加贝一直是卡扎菲坚定的同盟直到后者去世。
24. Phooey became an open secret on the island.
    阿福成了岛上公开的秘密。
25. So my wife's affair is just this big open secret.
    我太太的风流韵事是公开的秘密。
26. The existence of black and white contract is an open secret in the construction market, and is also a tough problem in the contract management.
    黑白合同的存在是建设工程市场公开的秘密，也是合同管理中一个棘手的问题。
27. An Open Secret System of Electronic Commerce Based on Self-contained Set
    一种开放式基于完备集的网上电子商务安全系统
28. Local government controlling news sources is still an open secret in local media. In addition, the economic pressure of investigative reporter under the present system of is very heavy.
    地方媒体的新闻控制上，地方政府控制新闻来源仍是公开的秘密，除此之外，现行体制下做调查性记者经济方面的压力非常之大。
29. The stock market manipulation has been regarded as an open secret in China. Compared with its profitability, the high price of many stocks makes it lose investment value and becomes the tool of speculative gambling.
    在我国，操纵证券市场的行为已经被认为是一个公开的秘密，大多数股票与其盈利能力相比，价格奇高，以致丧失了投资价值，只能成为投机赌博的工具。
30. Since China established stock market, misappropriate trading clearing funds of clients almost become an open secret and difficultly cure ills in Securities Industry.
    自从我国建立了证券市场以来，证券公司挪用客户的交易结算资金的现象已经成为我国证券行业中公开的秘密，也是证券行业难以治愈的顽疾。

noun

1. something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known
   1. their love affair was an open secret