confidence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (in) 信任； 信心， 自信； 秘密， 机密，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had anydoubt of him, I suppose this halfawakened it; but I am inclined tobelieve that with the simple confidence of a child, and the naturalreliance of a child upon superior years (qualities I am very sorryany children should prematurely change for worldly wisdom), Ihad no serious mistrust of him on the whole, even then.
-- Mr. Micawber's feelings would never allow him todispose of them; and Clickett'- this was the girl from theworkhouse- 'being of a vulgar mind, would take painful liberties ifso much confidence was reposed in her.
-- Traddles still remained, perhaps, but it was very doubtful; and Ihad not sufficient confidence in his discretion or good luck,however strong my reliance was on his good-nature, to wish totrust him with my situation.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm.
-- There was no want of likeness, she had been fortunate in the attitude, and as she meant to throw in a little improvement to the figure, to give a little more height, and considerably more elegance, she had great confidence of its being in ev-ery way a pretty drawing at last, and of its filling its destined place with credit to them both a standing memorial of the beauty of one, the skill of the other, and the friendship of both; with as many other agreeable associations as Mr. El-ton's very promising attachment was likely to add.
-- Emma remained very well pleased with this beginning of the acquaintance, and could now engage to think of them all at Randalls any hour of the day, with full confidence in their comfort.
-- She was told that now he wrote with the greatest confidence of being often with them, -almost as often as he could even wish.
-- She spoke with a confidence which staggered, with a satisfaction which silenced, Mr. Knightley.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ay," said Joseph, acquiring confidence from the warmth of the fire, the cider, and a perception of the narrative capabilities of the experience alluded to.
-- But if she was to be the practical woman she had intended to show herself, business must be carried on, introductions or none, and she ultimately acquired confidence enough to speak and reply boldly to men merely known to her by hearsay.
-- Oak was just thinking that whatever he himself might have suffered from Bathsheba's marriage, here was a man who had suffered more, when Boldwood spoke in a changed voice that of one who yearned to make a confidence and relieve his heart by an outpouring.
-- Boldwood aroused himself from the momentary mood of confidence into which he had drifted, and walked on again, resuming his usual reserve.
-- "Not but that I should like another nip with ye; but the parish might lose confidence in me if I was seed here."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
-- That report, you say, is false; and be assured, dear Justine, that nothing can shake my confidence in you for a moment, but your own confession.'
-- Interpret my words with candour and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity.'
-- I will confide this tale of misery and terror to you the day after our mar-riage shall take place, for, my sweet cousin, there must be perfect confidence between us.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Hold your tongue, Miss!I had it from John Wilkes this afternoon in the strictest confidence that Ashley's tomarry Miss Melanie.
-- Thewhite children clamored to sit on his knee and be trotted, while he denounced to their elders the infamy of Yankeepoliticians; the daughters of his friends took him into their confidence about their love affairs, and the youths of theneighborhood, fearful of confessing debts of honor upon the carpets of their fathers, found him a friend in need.
-- Confidence in ultimate victory never wavered.
-- But for all their apparent insouciance in the face of falling shells and shorter rations, for all their ignoring theYankees, barely half a mile away, and for all their boundless confidence in the ragged line of gray men in the rifle pits,there pulsed, just below the skin of Atlanta, a wild uncertainty over what the next day would bring.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe and I being fellow-sufferers, and having confidences as such, Joe imparted a confidence to me, the moment I raised the latch of the door and peeped in at him opposite to it, sitting in the chimney corner.
-- Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate;--whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:--whether suborned boys--a numerous band of mercenaries--might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;--it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.
-- I reposed complete confidence in no one but Biddy; but I told poor Biddy everything.
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