confident是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 确信的, 有把握的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, Mr. Stryver replied to my Lord, no; but he would ask the witness to tell him whether what happened once, might happen twice; whether he would have been so confident if he had seen this illustration of his rashness sooner, wheth-er he would be so confident, having seen it; and more.
-- That night it was the fourteenth of August he sat up late, and wrote two fervent letters; one was to Lucie, ex-plaining the strong obligation he was under to go to Paris, and showing her, at length, the reasons that he had, for feel-ing confident that he could become involved in no personal danger there; the other was to the Doctor, confiding Lucie and their dear child to his care, and dwelling on the same topics with the strongest assurances.
-- Among these terrors, and the brood belonging to them, the Doctor walked with a steady head: confident in his pow-er, cautiously persistent in his end, never doubting that he would save Lucie's husband at last.
-- 516 A tale of two citiesThus accoutred, and walking with the confident tread of such a character, and with the supple freedom of a woman who had habitually walked in her girlhood, bare-foot and bare-legged, on the brown sea-sand, Madame Defarge took her way along the streets.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then we shall see," Stepan Arkadyevitch said to himself, and getting up he put on a gray dressing-gown lined with blue silk, tied the tassels in a knot, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest, he walked to the window with his usual confident step, turning out his feet that carried his full frame so easily.
-- The petitioner, the widow of a staff captain Kalinin, came with a request impossible and unreasonable; but Stepan Arkadyevitch, as he generally did, made her sit down, heard her to the end attentively without interrupting her, and gave her detailed advice as to how and to whom to apply, and even wrote her, in his large, sprawling, good and legible hand, a confident and fluent little note to a personage who might be of use to her.
-- And hearing that voice, he went into the corner where stood his two heavy dumbbells, and began brandishing them like a gymnast, trying to restore his confident temper.
-- Having finished all his business, soaked through with the streams of water which kept running down the leather behind his neck and his gaiters, but in the keenest and most confident temper, Levin returned homewards in the evening.
-- And there passed before his mind a whole series of these mettlesome, vigorous, self- confident men, who always and everywhere drew his inquisitive attention in spite of himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing to say to so confident a response.
-- The snow had hardened, and Mudge was very confident of being able to transport Mr. Fogg in a few hours to Omaha.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It all cuts both ways, now it all cuts both ways,' repeated Raskolnikov, and he went out more confident than ever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Iam confident that he couldn't resist a chubby boy, especially; that 90there was a fascination in such a subject, which made him restlessin his mind, until he had scored and marked him for the day.
-- My auntshook her head firmly, confident in the character and behaviour ofthe girl who never was born.
-- I think I have made a start,' said Mr.Dick, passing his hand among his grey hair, and casting anythingbut a confident look at his manuscript.
-- He was rather a shallow sort of young gentleman, I thought, with ahandsome face, a rapid utterance, and a confident bold air.
-- She seemed to have found noanswer to either, but continued to rub, with her head on one sideand her eye turned up, as if she were looking for an answer in theair, and were confident of its appearing presently.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VIEmma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fan-cy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admi-ration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for.
-- His quick eye she detected again and again glancing towards them with a happy expression; and even, when he might have determined not to look, she was confident that he was often listening.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Fanny poor Fanny!the end she is so confident of has not yet come, she should remember and may never come.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have 90 Frankensteinexcited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone tried to show brave, confident faces to the troops.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.
-- A smile crossed his face then, and he turned his eyes on me with a trustful look, as if he were confident that I had seen some small redeeming touch in him, even so long ago as when I was a little child.
扩展阅读：