CONFIDENTsure that you can do things well, that people like you etc 自信的,对自己信心十足的OPP shy► see thesaurus at confident
—self-confidentlyadverbadv
—self-confidence noun [uncountableU]
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self-confident• Jess was only 12, but she was very self-confident.• Students are bright, articulate, self-confident and surprisingly mature.• These anecdotes give us an idea of the self-confidentarrogance of the Arabs.• I eventually became more self-confident as a public speaker.• He was loud and self-confident, but he had a right to be: he had a knack for pickingwinners.• Dan Reynolds, a self-confidentengineer with twenty years' experience with large companies, was laid off in 1992.• It also shows why most aggressive, self-confidentexecutives would rather be paid in stock than cash.• Even people like me became more self-confident in Art when he was the teacher.• The literature further suggests that transracial adopters are often very self-confident people with a resilience to stress.• She was supremely self-confident, with the gift of being able to talk on any subject whenever the camera was rolling.