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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan spoke in a tone of absolute conviction, and his enthusiastic confidence appeared contagious, for the others all exclaimed, too, "Yes, it is evident, quite evident!"
-- The captain was among the most confident on board, but his confidence mainly arose from the longing desire he had to see Miss Mary happy.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor fellow had temptations enough from without and from within, but he withstood them pretty well, for much as he valued liberty, he valued good faith and confidence more, so his promise to his grandfather, and his desire to be able to look honestly into the eyes of the women who loved him, and say 'All's well,' kept him safe and steady.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have forgotten to mention that, in many things, Queequeg placed great confidence in the excellence of Yojo's judgment and surprising forecast of things; and cherished Yojo with considerable esteem, as a rather good sort of god, who perhaps meant well enough upon the whole, but in all cases did not succeed in his benevolent designs.
-- But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.
-- The sum is, that at particular seasons within that breadth and along that path, migrating whales may with great confidence be looked for.
-- For such is the wonderful skill, prescience of experience, and invincible confidence acquired by some great natural geniuses among the Nantucket commanders; that from the simple observation of a whale when last descried, they will, under certain given circumstances, pretty accurately foretell both the direction in which he will continue to swim for a time, while out of sight, as well as his probable rate of progression during that period.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin laid great stress on the fact of his having taken Oliver in, and cherished him, when, without his timely aid, he might have perished with hunger; and he related the dismal and affecting history of a young lad whom, in his philanthropy, he had succoured under parallel circumstances, but who, proving unworthy of his confidence and evincing a desire to communicate with the police, had unfortunately come to be hanged at the Old Bailey one morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me recommend you, however, as a friend, not to give implicit confidence to all his asser-tions; for as to Mr. Darcy's using him ill, it is perfectly false; for, on the contrary, he has always been remarkably kind to him, though George Wickham has treated Mr. Darcy in a most infamous manner.
-- Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley's re-gard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.
-- Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them mutually silent on the subject; and Eliz-abeth felt persuaded that no real confidence could ever subsist between them again.
-- But, my dear sister, though the event has proved you right, do not think me obstinate if I still assert that, considering what her behaviour was, my confidence was as natural as your suspicion.
-- When she thought of her mother, her confidence gave way a little; but she would not allow that any objections THERE had material weight with Mr. Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would re-ceive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's connections, than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retain-ing Mr. Bingley for his sister.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus my fear banished all my religious hope, all that former confidence in God, which was founded upon such wonderful experience as I had had of His goodness; as if He that had fed me by miracle hitherto could not preserve, by His power, the provision which He had made for me by His goodness.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should never deserve her confidence again, after forcing from her a confession of what is meant at present to be unacknowledged to any one.
-- I would not attempt to force the confidence of any one; of a child much less; because a sense of duty would prevent the denial which her wishes might direct."
-- Mrs. Dashwood was sorry for what she had said; but it gave Elinor pleasure, as it produced a reply from Marianne so expressive of confidence in Willoughby and knowledge of his intentions.
-- But from such vain wishes she was forced to turn for comfort to the renewal of her confidence in Edward's affection, to the remembrance of every mark of regard in look or word which fell from him while at Barton, and above all to that flattering proof of it which he constantly wore round his finger.
-- Sir John's confidence in his own judgment rose with this animated praise, and he set off directly for the cottage to tell the Miss Dashwoods of the Miss Steeles' arrival, and to assure them of their being the sweetest girls in the world.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Owing to his order of mind, his confidence in the sex was not great.
-- His wife never possessed the virtues which would win the confidence and admiration of a man of his nature.
-- As long as she loved him vigorously he could see how confidence could be, but when that was no longer the binding chain--well, something might happen.
-- He was a most faithful worker in general, and a man who commanded the confidence of his employers in so far as the distribution of his time was concerned.
-- He was regaining much confidence as Carrie defended herself with denials.
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