| 单词 | confident |
| 释义 | con·fi·dent I. 1. obsolete a. b. 2. < advancing from triumph to triumph with clear eye and confident step — W.R.Inge > 3. < he felt confident that he could live to see the day — O.E.Rölvaag > 4. a. < I have no cocksure answer … Of course confident answers are common enough — C.E.Montague > b. 5. Synonyms: < a confident feeling of immense reserves in strength and endurance — T.E.Lawrence > Sometimes it may imply ill-grounded optimism or overbearing presumption < we have not realized the hopes of the eighteenth century ‘illumination’, when confident philosophers believed that humanity was shaking off its ancient chains — J.H.Robinson > < he swaggered up the path as if the place belonged to him and we heard his loud, confident peal at the bell — A. Conan Doyle > assured, sometimes uncomplimentary, indicates utter absence of doubt in one's ability, success, or correctness < “All the boys in my class are older, but I keep at the head.” Sometimes he was almost too assured — Ellen Glasgow > < [he] has assured carriage, walking boldly into good hotels and mixing with patrons on terms of equality — Don Marquis > sanguine, usually complimentary, stresses extreme optimism < a surgeon's commission for the doctor, and a lieutenancy for myself, were certainly counted upon in our sanguine expectations — Herman Melville > < his sanguine spirit kindled with an enthusiasm which overleaped every obstacle — W.H.Prescott > sure usually indicates a reasonable, well-grounded confidence < individual members may be ill-bred; the House itself has a fine taste and breeding, and a sure instinct in matters of conduct — John Buchan > < she tempted the young man into kissing her, and later lay in his arms for two hours, entirely sure of herself — Sherwood Anderson > self-confident and self-assured intensify suggestions of confident and assured and are often not complimentary < their claim to superiority is just as stubborn as though it were well-founded, just as self-assured as in case of our own really superior nation — Bertrand Russell > presumptuous always implies overconfidence and usually suggests boldness and insolence < Arheetoo had known me but two hours and as he made the proposition very coolly, I thought it rather presumptuous — Herman Melville > < to write in this way of men like Dante and Shakespeare is really less presumptuous than to write of smaller men — T.S.Eliot > II. variant of confidant |
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