Confidence

Definition

confidence /'kɒnfÇdǝns/ n ၁။ [U] (က) ~ (in sb/sth) စိတ္ခ် ယံုၾကည္ျခင္း။ ယံုစားမႈ။ to have/lose confidence in sb ❍ I have little confidence in him. ❍ Don't put too much confidence in what the papers say. ❍ There is a lack of confidence in the current government. (ခ) မိမိကိုယ္မိမိ ယံုၾကည္မႈ၊ ပိုင္ႏိုင္စိတ္ခ်မႈ။ He answered the questions with confidence. ❍ You are too shy: you should have more confidence (in yourself). ၂။ [C] အတြင္းေရးကိစၥ။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ကိစၥ။ The two girls sat in a corner exchanging confidences. ❏ confidence trick (also infml con trick, US confidence game ) n ယံုၾကည္မႈကိုအရယူၿပီး လိမ္လည္ျခင္း။ အယံု သြင္းၿပီး တစ္ပတ္႐ိုက္ျခင္း။ ❏ in sb's confidence [ IDM ] ယံုၾကည္စိတ္ခ်ျခင္းခံရသည္။ He's said to be very much in the President's confidence. ❏ take sb into one's confidence [ IDM ] အတြင္းေရးကို ဖြင့္ေျပာသည္။ I'm sure I could help him if only he'd take me into his confidence.

Examples

1. [have confidence] : He’s a nice boy
2. but he doesn’t have much confidence.
3. [confidence in] : You should have more confidence in your own abilities.
4. [give someone confidence] : Motherhood gave her confidence.
5. [gain/lose confidence] : The more he fails
6. the more he loses confidence in his abilities.
7. [lack the confidence to do something] : He would lack the confidence to find a job elsewhere.
8. [confidence in] : Public confidence in the police is at an all-time low.
9. [have confidence] : I have complete confidence in our chairman.
10. [lose confidence] : Many businesses have lost confidence in the government’s ability to handle the economy.
11. [restore confidence] : We must work to restore local confidence in the school.
12. As has already been suggested
13. their record does not inspire confidence.
14. [have confidence in] : I have complete confidence in these statistics.
15. [with confidence] : I can say with confidence that all our targets have now been met.
16. [confidence that] : He expressed his confidence that the project would be a success.