The military sounded confident that victory in its campaign to wipe out the Tamil Tigers is close at hand.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Did you feel confident that you could get them to give ? you money after you had kind of washed yourself out?

在你一贫如洗之后你还依然可以让投资者继续给你,投资，对此您是否感到信心大增呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And so, Socrates' friends ask him, how can we be confident that the soul will survive the death of the body and indeed be immortal?

于是苏格拉底的朋友们就问他,如何才能使我们确信,灵魂会在肉体的消亡中幸存,并且是真正的永生的呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

First of all, I'm very pleased when this happens, because I'm pretty confident that I can do this under duress, but I may not do it right every time.

首先,我非常乐意你们指出我的错误,因为虽然我对这些公式了如指掌,但我并不能保证每次都写对

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But they're confident that market share will expand as companies target the younger generations that have grown up playing video games.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

However, after a while,he comes to be too satisfied, too comfortable with his own brilliance and when another threat comes to the city,he is confident that he can solve the problem again for his people.

但是此后,他过于满足于,他自己的智谋,以至于他坚信能为他的人民,化解新的威胁

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Irish Foreign Minister Martin said he is confident that Mitchell can prevail in his Middle East task as well.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

It's in this period that Milton increasingly begins to adopt, or assume, Saint Peter's confident and denunciatory rhetoric.

就是在这段时间弥尔顿越来越接受，去采用，圣彼得的有信心的责难似的语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that military leaders, including McChrystal, are confident that U.S.forces are making progress against insurgents in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

The notion of a self-assured experimenter-- The results would be very different if the experimenter himself seemed nervous, unwilling to proceed, confused, but he was confident and he kept saying that he will take responsibility.

还有电击者的自信程度-,实验结果会大为不同，如果电击者,紧张，不愿进行电击，迷惑，但电击者很有信心，不停地说,他会承担责任。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I am absolutely confident that this meeting will reflect enormous consensus about the need to work together to deal with these problems,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

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

Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith is confident that disagreements over whaling will not damage the bilateral relationship.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

At first there was doubt and controversy, which has completely gone away, as more and more examples of this writing have become available and scholars are now able, by and large, to be confident that they know what these things say.

开始的时候还充斥着质疑的声音,而现在已经无可争议,因为已经有,越来越多这样的文字出土,学者们现在,对辨认出这些东西的含义,相当有自信了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And if all this goes together rapidly, I'm really confident that the problem will be fixed."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

But I'm not so confident anymore that it's the wrong thing to say.

但我不能再肯定那是错误的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

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

He said technicians are confident that they have fixed the hydrogen leak, which was found while NASA crews were filling the shuttle's external fuel tank.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Earlier,White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said U.S.commanders in Iraq are confident that Iraqi security forces will be able to take control of the nation's cities.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

But Mr.Obama said he is confident that the forces of destruction will fail."

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

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

VOA: standard.2009.07.22

So,am I disappointed? Sure,absolutely." Despite the objections from both the left and right, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains confident that Democrats will prevail in the health care battle.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

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

"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

I am confident that we are right to be in Afghanistan, that we have the strongest possible plan and we have the resources needed to do the job" But only about half the British public agrees with that argument.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

"I am very confident that that would leave us in the position where the government is taking risks it does not understand, cannot manage effectively, highly vulnerable to overpaying for those assets, and charges that we are giving a disguised subsidy that is unjustified,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"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

And that's half the battle with education. Give them control, make them feel confident and enjoy their learning and you'll see them start to improve and embrace it."

VOA: special.2011.04.21