私自
sīzì
private; personal; secretly; without explicit approval
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按照他们签的合同,谁私自拿了公司的钱,谁就要离开公司。Under the contract they had signed, whoever took the company's money without permission had to leave the company.译错的一个字 · One Word Wrong · HSK 6

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