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：
-- "Yes, we'll find him," was Glenarvan's reply, "Thalcave has set us on the track, and I have great confidence in him."
-- Their confidence increased as they found themselves nearer the Australian coast.
-- His guests congratulated him heartily as he ended his narration; and Paddy O'Moore no doubt expected confidence for confidence, but he waited in vain.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Congratulate me, my dear Holmes, and tell me that I have not disappoint-ed you as an agent that you do not regret the confidence which you showed in me when you sent me down.
-- If I had not every confidence in your nerve and courage I would not suggest it, but it is essential that you should do it.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt that though he had but applied to this miserable old drunkard because he saw no other way of getting to Nastasia Philipovna's, yet he had been very wrong to put the slightest confidence in such a man.
-- Have the least confidence in man or woman!'
-- He had begun to blame himself for two opposite tendencies on the one hand to extreme, almost 'senseless,' confidence in his fellows, on the other to a 'vile, gloomy suspiciousness.'
-- But although he and the prince were intimate, in a sense, and although the latter had placed the Burdovsky affair in his hands-and this was not the only mark of confidence he had received it seemed curious how many matters there were that were tacitly avoided in their conversations.
-- This confidence of a stupid man in his own talents has been wonderfully depicted by Gogol in the amazing char-acter of Pirogoff.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all held their peace, but Diomed of the loud war-cry spoke saying, 'Nestor, gladly will I visit the host of the Tro-jans over against us, but if another will go with me I shall do so in greater confidence and comfort.
-- But do you others set yourselves in order throughout the host, whosoever has confidence in his horses and in the strength of his chariot.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We can't send him over there, and we can't spare the time to build him a new shanty; and we certainly can't take him into our confidence just yet.'
-- I didn't take him completely into my confidence at first.
-- Every now and then a suspicious movement would startle me, but my confidence grew rapidly.
-- In the retrospect it is strange to remember how soon I fell in with these monsters' ways, and gained my confidence again.
-- My memory of the Law, of the two dead sailors, of the ambuscades of the darkness, of the body in the canebrake, haunted me; and, unnatural as it seems, with my return to mankind came, instead of that confidence and sympathy I had expected, a strange en-hancement of the uncertainty and dread I had experienced during my stay upon the island.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came run-ning down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No longer dreaded by her enemies, her servants were fast losing the confidence of self-respect.
-- said Heyward, leaning forward in the saddle, and dropping his voice nearly to a whisper; 'I con-fess I have not been without my own suspicions, though I have endeavored to conceal them, and affected a confidence I have not always felt, on account of my companions.
-- 'Go to him, and say that you left them with a message to hasten to their aid,' returned Cora, advancing nigher to the scout in her generous ardor; 'that the Hurons bear them into the northern wilds, but that by vigilance and speed they may yet be rescued; and if, after all, it should please heaven that his assistance come too late, bear to him,' she continued, her voice gradually lowering, until it seemed nearly choked, 'the love, the blessings, the final prayers of his daughters, and bid him not mourn their early fate, but to look forward with humble confidence to the Christian's goal to meet his children.'
-- Duncan caught from these natural accompani-ments of the solitary scene a glimmering of hope; and he began to rally his faculties to renewed exertions, with some-thing like a reviving confidence of success.
-- 'Without doubt, he could gather no confidence by wit-nessing our indifference,' he said.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours.
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