I am a lot more confident and a lot more hopeful."

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

So, you can understand they really felt quite confident at this time that we could explain everything that was going on and in fact, a really telling quote from the time was said by a professor at the University of Chicago, and what he said is, "Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth decimal place."

所以你可以理解,为什么当时的人那么,自信的说我们可以解释,这世界上发生的一起事情,事实上，当时有个著名的名言,是芝加哥大学的一个教授说的,他说“我们今后的科学发现,就在于弄清楚小数点第六位后的数，“

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The question, of course, is what scholars have disagreed about and continue to disagree about, because the evidence simply will not permit any confident answer, but I ought to just mention a few of the theories that have been tossed around, a few among many, many, many.

而这个问题,是学者曾经争论不休,而且至今也尚无定论的,因为以目前的证据,不能得到任何确切的答案,但我需要,就一小部分广为传播的理论做些说明,这些只是各种理论中的一小部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

She is also confident a malaria vaccine will eventually be developed.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

So, none of you in this room, I'm 100% confident, never ever got a smallpox vaccine.

所以我百分百确信这间教室里所有人,没有一个人接种过天花疫苗

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

In Quetta,Supreme Court Bar Association President Ali Ahmad Kurd said he felt confident about the chances of reinstating the deposed chief justice of the supreme court, who has become a unifying symbol for opponents of the ruling Pakistan People's Party and President Asif Zardari.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

This coda suggests something like a victory over all of those worries of unpreparedness as the worried rhetoric of "not yet there" gives way to a much more confident language of present completion, the "now."

这个终结暗示着,对所有的尚未准备好的忧虑的完全克服,一种对现在已经完成的事业的,自信和满足“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He is confident this will work here. "This is a fantastic experiment of a new type of public transport in London."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

You had to be very confident because it was going to take a long time, a fantastic amount of labor, a tremendous amount of money to do that.

你不得不相信,建造一座蜂巢墓要花费很长时间,大量的劳动力,以及庞大的金钱支持

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

A White House statement issued Sunday says Washington is confident that the United States' partnership with Japan "will continue to flourish."

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Gibbs said the White House is confident that at minimum a vote in the House can happen before the president leaves on his trip.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

And,I am confident that we will bring this operation to a successful outcome."

VOA: standard.2009.07.22

I'm confident that if we move forward in a spirit of keeping in mind what's best for the American people that we should be able to accomplish a lot."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Lead attorney Stephen Gardner says he's confident he can face a jury and ask three questions: "Is it unfair for McDonald's to bypass parents and market direct to little children?

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"We have got a lot of work to do,". "But I am very confident that with the team we have got assembled we are going to be able to make it happen."

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

In a first reaction the EU's executive branch, the European Commission, said it was confident the Czech Republic could continue to "effectively preside over the European Union" despite the government losing a no-confidence vote in Prague Tuesday's vote of no confidence came after the opposition said the government came to late with a stimulus package of over three billion dollars to boost the ailing economy of this Eastern European nation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"We continue to monitor production of Russian mobile missiles to ensure that in their production of the SS-27 mobile , they are not also building,covertly, a missile called the SS-20 which was banned during the Reagan years [So there are a large number of measures which allow the governments to be confident that the other side is in fact carrying out the treaty,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.08