confidence

n. 信心；信任；秘密

adj. （美）诈骗的；骗得信任的

n.

信心；信任；秘密；

adj.

骗得信任的；欺诈的；

变形

复数：confidences

双语释义

[U]信任 faith; full trust

[U]信心,自信 feeling of certainty; trust in one's own ability

[C]知心话,秘密 secret which is told to sb

英英释义

confidence[ 'kɔnfidəns ]

n.

freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

"after that failure he lost his confidence"

同义词：assuranceself-assuranceself-confidenceauthoritysureness

a feeling of trust (in someone or something)

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

a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable

"public confidence in the economy"

a trustful relationship

"he took me into his confidence"

同义词：trust

a secret that is confided or entrusted to another

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

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

词组短语

confidence in对……信任

with confidence满怀信心地

consumer confidence消费信任度

have confidence in对…有信心

confidence level 置信级；可信度；信赖水准；置信水平（等于confidence coefficient）

investor confidence投资信心；投资者信任

confidence interval置信区间，可靠区间

in confidence秘密地

business confidence经营信心，商业信心

build confidence树立信心

degree of confidence可信度，置信度；信赖度

crisis of confidence信任危机

vote of confidence信任票；赞同；支持

consumer confidence index消费者信心指数

level of confidence信心程度；置信水平

confidence limit置信界限；置信限度

vote of no confidence不信任投票

confidence probability置信概率，信赖机率

confidence trick骗局；欺诈

give one's confidence to信任，信赖

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“相信，信任”的意思，其区别是：

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。

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。

faith语气较强，强调完全相信；有时也能仅凭感觉产生的相信。

trust强调相信、信任的完全可靠。

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。

credit语气最弱，着重以声誉为信任的基础。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The servant enjoyed his master's confidence.
这仆人深得主人的信赖。

We have full confidence that we shall succeed.
我们完全有把握取得成功。

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。

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。

权威例句

confidence (n.)

early 15c., from Middle French confidence or directly from Latin confidentia, from confidentem (nominative confidens) "firmly trusting, bold," present participle of confidere "to have full trust or reliance," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + fidere "to trust" (see faith). For sense of "swindle" see con (adj.).

1. She built up my confidence.

她树立了我的信心。

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2. He crawled into the confidence of the boss.

他偷偷地得到了老板的信任。

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3. Tom blames his lack of confidence on his mother.

汤姆把他的缺乏信心归咎于他母亲。

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4. He was admitted into their fullest confidence.

他获得了他们的充分信任。

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5. What counts is determination and confidence.

关键在于要有决心和信心。

6. Lao Zhang is very conscientious in doing his work, so his comrades all have confidence in him.

老张对工作一丝不苟，同志们都很信任他。

7. They have confidence in me.

他们对我有信心。

8. I have every confidence in you.

我对你非常有信心。

9. You have to have confidence.

你必须保持自信。

10. I have confidence.

我有信心。

11. I have no confidence ,maybe.

可能是我没有自信了。

12. In order to do this you have to build up confidence.

为了做到这一点，你一定要建立起自信。

13. I had no confidence in myself at all.

我对自己一点信心都没有。

14. I have confidence in you.

我对你有信心。

15. Have confidence in God.

在神身上有信心。

16. Have confidence in yourself.

得对自己有信心。

17. Maybe it was her confidence and reassurance, but I think it was because if she believed it then I should too.

这也许只是她的信心和安慰，但我想既然她相信事情会好起来那么我也没有理由不相信。

18. You have to build that kind of trust. When you do, you build confidence.

你一定要建立起那种信任感，然后你就建立起了自信。

19. I have every confidence in my success.

我有信心，我一定会成功的。

20. What gives you strength and confidence in life?

在生活中是什么给了你力量和信心？

21. But only when they have confidence that they can recover this state can people be truly courageous in what they do.

但是，仅仅是当他们有信心他们能够恢复到这个状态时，人们才会真的有勇气这样做。

22. If you don’t know yourself and know your opponent, then this kind of confidence scares me.

如果你不了解你自己和你的对手，那么你的这种信心让我感到害怕。

23. What we want to show is our confidence and whether we win or not is not that important .

我们想展示的是我们的信心和乐观.所以我们是否会赢并不那么重要

24. If you have the courage to do something juvenile and enjoy it, you know you have confidence.

如果你有勇气做一些幼稚的事情并能享受它，这时你便有了信心。

25. I have every confidence in your success.

我很有信心你会成功的。

26. Grant me your confidence, for your path is also my path.

给我你们的信任，因为你们的路也就是我的路。

27. Grant me your confidence, for your path is also my path.

给我你们的信任，因为你们的路也就是我的路。

28. Little gestures can give confidence.

细小的表示能使人增强信心。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

29. If the application, for example, saves a user’s file to disk automatically, it should have the confidence to know that it is doing the right thing.

例如，如果程序把用户的文件自动保存到磁盘上，它应该自信地认为自己做对了。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

30. misplaced confidence

错误的信赖,估计错误的信赖

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

31. Confidence limits are the upper and lower limits of the confidence interval.

置信限是指置信区间的界限。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

32. We aren’t interested in the application’s crisis of confidence about whether or not to purge its Recycle Bin. We don’t want to hear its whining about not being sure where to put a file on disk.

我们对程序是否有信心清空垃圾箱不感兴趣，我们不想听到软件抱怨不知道该将文件放到磁盘什么地方。

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33. When you design your software, go ahead and give it the force of its convictions (backed up, of course, by user research, as discussed in Chapter 4). Users will respect its brevity and its confidence.

当你设计软件时，勇往直前给它确信的力量（如第4章中讨论的那样，通过用户研究来支持），用户会敬佩其简短和自信。

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34. He was always amazed by her confidence.

他常常对她的自信惊叹不已。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

35. The confidence interval is the range of the estimate we are making.

置信区间是所确定的估计值的取值范围。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

36. More experienced users, with more confidence in their understanding and control of the application, will begin to notice these controls and wonder about their purpose.

更有经验的用户在理解和控制程序方面会更有信心，会开始注意到这些控件，而对它们的目的感到好奇。

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37. Not only should software keep quiet about its problems, but it should also have the intelligence, confidence, and authority to fix its problems on its own.

软件不仅应该对自己的事情保持安静，而且应该是聪明、自信并自主地解决自己的问题。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓