Picture someone standing steady before the result is in: they do not know for certain, but the doubt has gone quiet. That settled feeling can point at three things — how this will turn out, what I can do, or whether this is so — and English uses the same word for all three.

可以想成:結果還沒出來,但一個人已經站得很穩——他不是真的知道,只是心裡的懷疑安靜下來了。這份篤定可以指向三個方向:事情會怎麼發展、我做不做得到、這件事是不是真的;英文三個都用同一個字,差別只在後面接什麼。

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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

confidentadj/ˈkɒnfɪdənt/

  • 1

    Very sure of something; positive.

    • I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
    • He was confident of success.
  • 2

    Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.

  • 3

    derogatoryobsoleteForward, impudent.

    • I was rated as the most confident ruffian, for daring to approach her room at that hour of night.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。