confidence

英 ['kɒnfɪdəns] 美 ['kɑːnfɪdəns]

• n. 信任；把握；信心；知心话
• adj. 骗得信任的

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U]信任

   faith; full trust

2. [U]信心,自信

   feeling of certainty; trust in one's own ability

3. [C]知心话,秘密

   secret which is told to sb

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 秘密，私房话
2. 信任，信赖
3. 把握，确信
4. 自信，信心
5. 大胆，狂妄
6. 胆量
7. 厚脸，无耻
8. 信念
9. 信任感
10. 信誉，信用

v. 动词

1. 通过骗人的手段骗取

英英释义

Noun:

1. freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities;

   "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"
   "after that failure he lost his confidence"
   "she spoke with authority"
   

2. a feeling of trust (in someone or something);

   "I have confidence in our team"
   "confidence is always borrowed, never owned"
   

3. a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable;

   "public confidence in the economy"
   

4. a trustful relationship;

   "he took me into his confidence"
   "he betrayed their trust"
   

5. a secret that is confided or entrusted to another;

   "everyone trusted him with their confidences"
   "the priest could not reveal her confidences"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The servant enjoyed his master's confidence.
   这仆人深得主人的信赖。
2. We have full confidence that we shall succeed.
   我们完全有把握取得成功。
3. The worst barrier to your success is not lack of money, but lack of confidence.
   你成功最大的障碍不是缺钱,而是缺乏信心。
4. The two girls told each other confidences about their boyfriends.
   这两个姑娘相互谈了关于各自男友的悄悄话。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The servant enjoyed his master's confidence.
   这佣人深得主人的信任。
2. I had confidence, however, in my own youth and energy.
   然而，我对自己的青春和精力充满了信心。
3. They sat in a corner exchanging confidences.
   他们坐在角落里说着悄悄话。

经典引文

• The King reposeth all his confidence in thee.

  出自：Richard II , Shakespeare

• She had but a limited confidence in her brother's judgement.

  出自： H. James

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

in (strict) confidence

秘密地,暗中 as a secret

take into one's confidence

向…吐露心事; 以…为心腹 tell sb one's secrets
take sb into one's confidence
He wouldn't take me into his confidence.

他不愿把我当作知己。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• capture〔enjoy, gain〕 sb's confidence 得到某人的信任
• create confidence 产生信心
• establish confidence 树立信心
• exchange confidences 谈知心话
• express confidence 表明自信心
• lack confidence 缺乏信心
• obtain the confidence of 取得…的信任
• place one's confidence in 对…给予信任
• put confidence in 相信…,信任…

形容词+～

• strict confidence 严加保密的话
• absolute〔complete, entire〕 confidence 完全信任
• full confidence 充分信任,充分的信心
• little confidence 不大相信,不大信任
• much confidence 非常相信〔信任〕
• perfect confidence 充分的信心

介词+～

• in confidence 私下里,秘密地
• take sb into one's confidence 把某人当知己
• with little confidence 缺乏信心地

～+介词

• confidence in 对…的信任
• confidence in sb's ability 对某人能力的信任

词义辨析

n. (名词)

confidence, belief, faith, trust

• 这组词都可以表示“相信”。其区别在于:
• 1.faith指有事实依据证明某人或某物真实可靠,毋庸置疑; belief是普通用语,指没有经过自己亲自观察和亲身经历就去相信,即使事实不真或根本不存在也不产生怀疑。例如:
• I have great belief in his ability to succeed.我相信他有能力获得成功。
• confidence指根据自己的观察,有充分的理由和证据承认某事是正确的。例如:
• I had confidence in my own youth and energy.我对自己的年轻和精力很有信心。trust指从本人直观感觉认为某人的行为是正确的、符合道德标准的,可以信托。例如:
• A child usually has perfect trust in his mother.孩子通常都很信任自己的母亲。
• 2.faith后可接that从句; belief后也可接that从句。例如:
• Their great driving force is the belief that they are doing right.他们相信自己做得对的信念驱使他们前行。
• confidence除可接that从句外,还可接动词不定式。例如:
• I hadn't got enough confidence to go ahead .我没有足够的信心前进了。
• trust除可用作名词外,还可用作动词。例如:
• Can you trust his account of what happened?你相信他所说的这件事发生的原因吗?

belief，faith，confidence，conviction，credit，trust

• 这些名词都有“相信，信任”之意。
• belief普通用词，指单纯从主观上的相信，不着重这种相信是否有根据。
• faith语气较强，强调完全相信；有时也能仅凭感觉产生的相信。
• confidence指对某人某事有充分信心，断定不会使人失望，因而给予信任。
• conviction多指根据长期交往或实践，对某人某事有了认识和了解后产生的信心和相信，侧重其坚定性。
• credit语气最弱，着重以声誉为信任的基础。
• trust强调相信、信任的完全可靠。

belief，faith，trust，confidence

• 都含有“相信”的意思。
• belief指“承认某事是真的, 尽管有或没有确凿的证据”。
• faith指“认为有确凿证据或道理而完全相信”。
• trust指“信赖”、“信任”, 含有“坚定的信念”的意思,。
• confidence指“在有证据的基础上相信”, 也常指“自信”、“有把握”。

词源解说

• ☆ 1430年左右进入英语，直接源自古典拉丁语的confidentia；最初源自此语的confidentem(confidere的过去分词）：con (表示一起） + fidere (信任），意为互相信任。

近反义词

【近义词】

• belief
• secret
• self-confidence

【反义词】

• distrust
• doubt
• uncertainty