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- feeling or showing confidence in oneself or one's abilities or qualities自信的; 有信心的：
a confident smile
自信的微笑
people who are confident in their identity.
对自身充满信心的人们。
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- feeling or showing certainty about something确信的; 有把握的：
this time they're confident of a happy ending
这一次, 他们确信会有一个愉快的结局
I am not very confident about tonight's game.
我对今晚的比赛不是很有把握。
- archaic a confidant〈古〉密友, 知己。
派生词
confidently
adverb词源
late 16th cent.: from French confident(e)， from Italian confidente, from Latin confident- 'having full trust'， from the verb confidere, from con- (expressing intensive force)+fidere 'trust'.