Word · Frequency #19256
confidant
知己；密友
核心释义
a person with whom one shares private secrets or personal matters; a trusted friend
- 1.
可以倾诉或分享秘密的人；朋友。
A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.
- 2.
可以倾诉私事的人
someone to whom private matters are confided
可以倾诉或分享秘密的人；朋友。；可以倾诉私事的人；心腹朋友；知己
用法In use
I told my secret to my closest confidant.
用法提示：confidant 作为可数名词，指可以信任的心腹朋友。
She considered her assistant her most trusted confidant.
用法提示：confidant 在此表示在工作中可以倾诉私密的人。
They were confidants who shared everything with each other.
用法提示：confidants 是 confidant 的复数形式，指互相坦诚交流的知心朋友。
possessive + confidant
She told her secret to her closest confidant.
她把秘密告诉了她最亲密的知己。
confidant of + noun/pronoun
He was a confidant of the president.
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- close confidant
- 亲密知己；心腹
- She became a close confidant of the CEO.她成了首席执行官的心腹知己。
- trusted confidant
- 可信赖的知己
- For years, he was the president's trusted confidant.多年来，他一直是总统信赖的知己。
- longtime confidant
- 多年的知己
- Her longtime confidant knew about the plan before anyone else.她多年的知己比任何人都先知道这个计划。
- become confidants
- 成为知己
- After months of working together, they became confidants.共事几个月后，他们成了知己。
- serve as a confidant
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
记住：confidant 与 confident 只差一个字母——confident 是自信，confidant 是让你放心倾诉秘密的知己。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：literary works、biographies、formal writing confidant 比较正式、书面，常见于文学作品和传记中；日常口语里更常说 close friend 或 someone to confide in。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
Confidant's final '-dant' is pronounced /dɑnt/, so it rhymes with 'font' and (in some American pronunciations) with 'commandant'. 'Confidante' is spelled with an extra e but has the same pronunciation. Words like 'dependant', 'pendant', and 'attendant' end in '-dant' but are pronounced with an unstressed /dənt/, so they do not rhyme with /dɑnt/.
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