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：
-- He crossed the deck with a confident tread, and mounted the steps to the poop.
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：
-- Had I been with Sir Henry and you it is confident that my point of view would have been the same as yours, and my presence would have warned our very formidable opponents to be on their guard.
-- Like most clever crim- inals, he may be too confident in his own cleverness and imagine that he has completely deceived us.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jove, moreover, has sent his lightnings on their right; Hector, in all his glory, rages like a maniac; confident that Jove is with him he fears nei-ther god nor man, but is gone raving mad, and prays for the approach of day.
-- His chariot was not at hand for him to fly with, so blindly confident had he been.
-- While he was still fighting and confident of victory, Menelaus came up to help Meges, and got by the side of Dolops unperceived; he then speared him in the shoulder, from behind, and the point, driven so furi-ously, went through into his chest, whereon he fell headlong.
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：
-- Even the most confident and the stoutest hearts began to think the issue of the contest was becoming doubt-ful; and that abject class was hourly increasing in numbers, who thought they foresaw all the possessions of the English crown in America subdued by their Christian foes, or laid waste by the inroads of their relentless allies.
-- The scout regarded Heyward in surprise, and then lifting his cap, he answered, in a tone less confident than before though still expressing doubt.
-- Though, if I felt confident of his treachery ' 'Tis a safe thing to calculate on the knavery of an Iro-quois,' said the scout, throwing his rifle forward, by a sort of instinctive movement.
-- 'I had misgivings that such would be his fate,' resumed the scout, in a less confident and joyous tone.
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：
-- Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yet," said the sailor, "when I remember the history of the turtle, I am far from confident of that."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captivated with his own ingenuity, and confident in the strength of his position, which he had taken up after the method of those hardy individuals who open the pit and gallery doors of theatres on crowded nights, Mr Swiveller rained down such a shower of blows, that the noise of the bell was drowned; and the small servant, who lingered on the stairs below, ready to fly at a moment's notice, was obliged to hold her ears lest she should be rendered deaf for life.
-- I am quite confident you will be tender with me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From all that occurred at the trial and his knowledge of Maslova, Nekhludoff was convinced that she was innocent, and at first was confident that the other jurors would so find her, but when he saw that because of the merchant's bungling defense of Maslova, evidently prompted by his undisguised liking for her, and the foreman's resistance which it caused, but chiefly because of the weariness of the jury, there was likely to be a verdict of guilty, he wished to make objection, but feared to speak in her favor lest his relations toward her should be disclosed.
-- Nekhludoff, on the other hand, to say nothing of the vexation caused him by his brother-in-law's interference in his affairs (in the depth of his soul he felt that his brother-in-law, his sister and their children, as heirs, had the right to do so), was indignant at the calm and confident manner of that narrow-minded man who continued to consider legal and just that which to Nekhludoff was undoubtedly foolish.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I went with them the memory of my confident anticipations of a profoundly grave and intellectual posterity came, with irresistible merriment, to my mind.
-- I cursed aloud, as I ran, at my confident folly in leaving the machine, wasting good breath thereby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In speaking thus, I wished to appear more confident than I really was.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even walking up the path to the church, confident as she was that in every respect she stood beyond all vulgar judgment, knowing perfectly that her appearance was complete and perfect, according to the first standards, yet she suffered a torture, under her confidence and her pride, feeling herself exposed to wounds and to mockery and to despite.
-- She was very handsome, flushed, and confident in dreadful knowledge.
-- "I'm sure they won't," she said, as if she had to convince herself also, and yet, as if she were confident of some secret power in herself, and had to put it to the test.
-- "And I shall strike the last," she retorted involuntarily, with confident assurance.
-- She must be confident here, for God knows, she felt rejected and deficient enough elsewhere.
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