名词

1. 信任;信赖
If you have confidence in someone, you feel that you can trust them.

2. 自信;信心
If you have confidence, you feel sure about your abilities, qualities, or ideas.

3. 肯定;把握
If you can say something with confidence, you feel certain it is correct.

4. 私下;秘密
If you tell someone something in confidence, you tell them a secret.

5. 秘密;知心话
A confidence is a secret that you tell someone.

6. see also: vote of no confidence

1. freedom from doubt
belief in yourself and your abilities

e.g. his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular
after that failure he lost his confidence
she spoke with authority

Synonym: assuranceself-assuranceself-confidenceauthoritysureness

2. a secret that is confided or entrusted to another

e.g. everyone trusted him with their confidences
the priest could not reveal her confidences

3. a feeling of trust (in someone or something)

e.g. I have confidence in our team
confidence is always borrowed, never owned

4. a trustful relationship

e.g. he took me into his confidence
he betrayed their trust

Synonym: trust

5. a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable

e.g. public confidence in the economy