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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- "Well, we'll find him still," exclaimed Paganel, in a confident tone.
-- Next day, the 9th of January, notwithstanding the assurances of the confident geographer, it was not without great difficulty that the little troop made its way through the Alpine pass.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This resolution perhaps may appear very bold and dan-gerous, and I am confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe on the like occasion.
-- I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it.
-- And, indeed, I was glad not to have been a spectator of the havoc they made, because I am confident it would have sensibly touched me, by bringing former pas-sages into my mind, which I would rather have forgot.
-- I was at first at a great loss for salt, but custom soon reconciled me to the want of it; and I am confident that the frequent use of salt among us is an effect of luxury, and was first -introduced only as a provocative to drink, except where it is necessary for preserving flesh in long voyages, or in places remote from great markets; for we observe no animal to be fond of it but man, and as to myself, when I left this country, it was a great while before I could endure the taste of it in 293anything that I ate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- B., aged twenty-four next birthday, and committed for eighteen months' solitary, had himself said (not that he had ever shown himself particularly worthy of belief) his ruin began, as he was perfectly sure and confident that otherwise he would have been a tip-top moral specimen.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "More than that, I am now confident of ultimate success."
-- Still, ofthough my surm I amise, confident this fish of offers the correctness to our notice a remarkable peculiarity, never known to exist in any other fish but those which are the natives of subterranean waters, wells, lakes, in caverns, and suchlike hidden pools."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was so confident in her exposition of the case, and it was so undeniably founded on correct premises in so far as the relative positions of Little Dorrit and her family were concerned, that Clennam could not feel positive on the other side.
-- Whatever weight I may derive from my position as a married girl not wholly devoid of attractions used, as that position always shall be, to oppose that woman I will bring to bear, you May depend upon it, on the head and false hair (for I am confident it's not all real, ugly as it is and unlikely as it appears that any One in their Senses would go to the expense of buying it) of Mrs General!'
-- Confident in the rectitude of his purpose, and impelled by a sense of overhanging danger closing in around, he resolved, if his mother would still admit of no approach, to make a desperate appeal to Affery.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It took off the extreme edge of their wonder; and so what with all this and Stubb's confident way of accounting for their appearance, they were for the time freed from superstitious surmisings; though the affair still left abundant room for all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahab's precise agency in the matter from the beginning.
-- As for Derick, he seemed quite confident that this would be the case, and occasionally with a deriding gesture shook his lamp-feeder at the other boats.
-- Owing to a confident reliance upon other means of determining the vessel's place, some merchantmen, and many whalemen, especially when cruising, wholly neglect to heave the log; though at the same time, and frequently more for form's sake than anything else, regularly putting down upon the customary slate the course steered by the ship, as well as the presumed average rate of progression every hour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spirit of contradiction was strong in Mr. Grimwig's breast, at the moment; and it was rendered stronger by his friend's confident smile.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On being made acquainted with the present Mr. Darcy's treatment of him, she tried to re-member some of that gentleman's reputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it, and was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Dar-cy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.
-- I am confident that she would have performed delightfully.
-- She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over un-avoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother, still confident of their engagement, and relying as warmly as ever on his constancy, had only been roused by Elinor's application, to intreat from Marianne greater openness towards them both; and this, with such tenderness towards her, such affection for Willoughby, and such a conviction of their future happiness in each other, that she wept with agony through the whole of it.
-- But he judged it unnecessary: he had still something more to try, some more fresh application, of whose success he was as confident as the last, and his visit concluded with encouraging assurances which reached the ear, but could not enter the heart of Miss Dashwood.
-- She recognised the whole of Lucy in the message, and was very confident that Edward would never come near them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She seemed a thorough master of her mood-- thoroughly confident and determined to wrest all control from him.
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