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词组 confident
释义 confident
      When this adjective is followed by a preposition, in and of are the ones most likely to be used— they occur with equal frequency:
      Why should he not walk confident in his own high purpose —Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought, 1930
      ... people were confident of a golden future — Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again, 1940
      Less frequently, about or at may be found:
      ... make him more confident about speaking at length —Bernard H. & Charles D. McKenna, American School Board Jour., June 1968
      ... but few would be at all confident at assigning him a particular place in the history of English writing — Times Literary Supp., 17 Apr. 1969
      And still less frequently, but nevertheless idiomatically, confident is used with as to or on:
      ... who were clear as to their goal and confident as to their victory —Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934
      ... the Democrats were confident on the point and the Republicans fearful — Wall Street Jour., 4 Nov. 1954
      Very often, of course, confident is followed not by a prepositional phrase but by a dependent clause:
      We are confident that the budget... will permit both major segments of higher education to meet California's education needs ... —Ronald Reagan, quoted in Change, September 1971
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