看到这个:
5 : very closely related or connected : very close
▪ There is an intimate connection/relationship between diet and health.
但是和人之间的关系,一说intimate,我联系到的是男女之间的:
3 : involving sex or sexual relations
▪ They are in an intimate and committed relationship. ▪ He denies that they were ever intimate. = He denies that he was ever intimate with her. [=that he ever had sexual relations with her]