| 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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