Confident, Confidant, 或Confidante怎么区别？

"Confident," "confidant," 及"confidante" 极易混淆，因为发音和书写都很接近。

• Confidant 与 Confidante.

“confidant”或“confidante”指的是受信任的人或可以倾诉私人事务的人。(单词“confidant”和“confidante”可以互换，但严格的语法学家把“confidant”留给男性，“confidante”留给女性。)

• He is most closest confidant. You can tell her. She is a confidante.
• Confident. "Confident" 意思是确信或保证。.I am confident it will rain.She is confident she will pass the exam.

更多说明

有些人会混淆“confident”和“confidant”。这些词看起来相似，但含义不同。“Confidant”和“confidante”(都有法语发音)是可以互换的，但有些人喜欢用“Confidant”表示男性，用“confidante”表示女性。

Confidant

名词“confidant”指的是对某人倾诉私人事务的人(也就是值得信任的人)。
例句：

• Finding a confidant can be difficult if you have a hard time placing trust in others.
• An Egyptian believed to be a close confidant of Bin Laden has been killed in a drone strike.

Confidante

大多数人认为“confidante”是“confidant”的另一种拼写。然而，一些人认为“confidante”是女性版的“confidant”，而这个词是男性专用的。如果你知道“confidant”是女性，我建议你用“confidante”。
例句:

• My mother was my best friend and confidante.

Confident

“confident自信”这个词几乎总是一个形容词。自信也意味着对即将发生的事情感到确信或肯定。
例句

• My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
• No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.