"It is a challenge after just a few months of implementation to be able to speak with confidence about when these things will occur,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

I think you people know how we can say that with confidence.

我想你们肯定都知道我们为何如此确信

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

then I think absolutely plastic surgery can... maybe should be used if it's going to help with your self-confidence.

那么我觉得整形手术一定能……如果它能帮你增强自信，就应该整形。

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"Now,with large epidemiological studies done everywhere including here, we can say with a great level of confidence that the disease affects roughly the same percentage of the general public worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.11.16

Prideful people, he tells us, are those overflowing with confidence about their own abilities to succeed and ? we all know people like this, don't we, like Yale students? They're all verflowing with confidence, kind of alpha types.

他说，有傲骄感的人是那些,充溢着对他们获得,成功之能力的自信,我们都熟悉这种人，不是吗，就像耶鲁的学生一样,他们都自信满满，什么都想争第一。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Even with the rise, the latest figure remains nearly 50 percent below the consumer confidence number reported two years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

With some degree of confidence, I'm working with a reliable spring and then I will get the mass of the elephant.

这时我就对弹簧有信心了,我用的是一个可靠的弹簧,我能测出大象的质量

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Indeed,Wall Street has reflected a growing confidence, ending the year with its biggest gain since 2003.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Why do you have confidence putting it in contact with one of the most important organs of your body?

为什么你对它有信心,让它接触,你身上最重要的器官

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Similar surveys show that the public in countries with large Muslim populations - including Turkey - lack the confidence Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can do the right thing regarding world affairs.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

All of that means we need to explain why these folks do what they end up doing, and we have some hints, but of course we do not know with any certainty or any confidence.

综上所述,我们来想想为什么这些人,要背井离乡呢,我们有一些线索,但是我们并没有有力的证据

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Key playerThis year,China's economy is expected to grow by more than eight percent, and its overall resilience to the global financial crisis, has brought with it increasing confidence in the international arena.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

So if he came up with the idea, that's the only kind of consent we could have confidence in morally then it would be okay.

所以如果是他自己提出的，除非他是在这种情况下的同意,才能确信说，道德上没问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The lower house of the Czech Parliament voted 101 to 96 to declare no confidence in the coalition government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, after four lawmakers broke rank with their parties and voted with the opposition.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

I say this now with great confidence but ten years ago this story, which all the Greeks agreed too, agreed upon in every respect, that the temple of Apollo was built right on top of this, and underneath the floor of the temple was this little room where the gases came up, where the priestess sat, where all of this came up.

我现在敢在这里夸夸其谈,但是十年前,当时的希腊人,对这个传说都是深信不移的,阿波罗神庙正好建在它上面,神庙地板底下正是气体出现的小屋,女祭司也坐在这里,一切都发生于此

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"One of the things that everybody here is mindful of is that as we move forward dealing with this extraordinary economic crisis, we also have a deficit, a confidence gap when it comes to the American people.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

What Mr.Calderon may be able to accomplish, in Grayson's view, is substantial reform of Mexico's police and judicial system so that the public will have more confidence in its law enforcement system and be more willing to cooperate with authorities.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

But at the same time,Admiral Mullen, who is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed confidence that with a solid Afghan partner, an increase in U.S.forces can bring a measure of security and stability to Afghanistan within a few years, as the 2007/2008 "surge" helped provide an opportunity for Iraq to move forward in a more secure environment.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"For many of the women who walk through our doors, confidence is a huge issue, and I know,many of the women who I've worked with have said to me, 'you know Suzanne, no one has ever said to me, I believe in you,' Elliott says 70 percent of the women helped by the group are single mothers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

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