confidant
confidant 英 [ˈkɒnfɪdænt] 美 [ˈkɑnfɪdænt]
n. 知己；密友
名词复数:confidants
- A confidant is the person you tell your secrets to. Your confidant has all the dirt on you, so don't forget his birthday or he might start talking...
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- n. 知己；密友
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1. I have been their confidant, their friend, their ally.
我是他们的密友、朋友，他们的同盟。
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2. She had chosen me for her confidant and I learned all about her quarrels with her lover.
她把我当作知己，于是，我便将她和情人之间的争吵了解得一清二楚。
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3. The best thing to do when we are experiencing pessimistic thoughts is to simply talk it over with a friend, confidant, or professional counselor.
最好的方法是当我们经历悲观的想法时，只需要跟朋友，密友或者专业的心里辅导师讲出来就好了。
- confidant (n.) 1610s, confident, "(male) person trusted with private affairs," from French confident (16c.), from Italian confidente "a trusty friend," literally "confident, trusty," from Latin confidentem (nominative confidens), present participle of confidere "to trust, confide," from assimilated form of com, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + fidere "to trust" (from PIE root *bheidh- "to trust, confide, persuade"). The spelling with -a- and the pronunciation with the stress on the last syllable came to predominate 18c. and might reflect the French pronunciation.
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