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🔑 con·fi·denceBrE /ˈkɒnfɪdəns/NAmE /ˈkɑːnfɪdəns/ noun➤belief in others 对他人的信心🔑 [U] ~ (in sb/sth) the feeling that you can trust, believe in and be sure about the abilities or good qualities of sb/sth 信心；信任；信赖◆The players all have confidence in their manager. 队员都信赖他们的教练。◆A fall in unemployment will help to restore consumer confidence. 失业人数的下降会有助于恢复消费者的信心。◆a lack of confidence in the government 对政府缺乏信任◆The new contracts have undermined the confidence of employees. 新的合同动摇了雇员们的信心。◆She has every confidence in her students' abilities. 她完全相信她学生的能力。 ➡ see also vote of confidence, vote of no confidence ➤belief in yourself 对自己的信心🔑 [U] a belief in your own ability to do things and be successful 自信心；把握◆He answered the questions with confidence. 他自信地回答了那些问题。◆People often lose confidence when they are criticized. 人受到批评时经常会失去信心。◆He gained confidence when he went to college. 他上大学后增强了自信。◆She suffers from a lack of confidence. 她深受缺乏自信心之苦。◆While girls lack confidence, boys often overestimate their abilities. 女孩通常缺乏自信，而男孩则往往会高估自己的能力。◆I didn't have any confidence in myself at school. 我在学校时对自己毫无信心。➤feeling certain 感到有把握🔑 [U] the feeling that you are certain about sth 把握；肯定◆They could not say with confidence that he would be able to walk again after the accident. 他们不能肯定他经过那场事故后还能行走。◆He expressed his confidence that they would win. 他表示了自己的信心：他们必定取胜。➤trust 信任 [U] a feeling of trust that sb will keep information private （对某人会保守秘密的）信任，信赖◆Eva told me about their relationship in confidence. 伊娃对我透露了他们俩的关系这个秘密。◆This is in the strictest confidence. 这事切勿外传。◆It took a long time to gain her confidence (= make her feel she could trust me). 我花了很长的时间才赢得她的信任。➤a secret 秘密 [C] (formal) a secret that you tell sb （向某人透露的）秘密，机密◆The girls exchanged confidences. 女孩子们相互吐露自己的心事。◆I could never forgive Mike for betraying a confidence. 迈克泄露了秘密，我绝不会原谅他。 ●be in sb's confidenceto be trusted with sb's secrets 受某人信任；是某人的心腹◆He is said to be very much in the President's confidence. 据说他深受总统的信任。●take sb into your confidenceto tell sb secrets and personal information about yourself 向某人吐露内心秘密（或隐私）◆She took me into her confidence and told me about the problems she was facing. 她把我当成知己，把她面临的种种难题都向我和盘托出。 |