自信的人-他们不害怕失败(6)

 自信的人

 

They don't fear failure.

 

All people have their setbacks. Confidence¹ isn't doing everything right, it's pushing on even after being wrong. Researchsuggests that people who appear more self-assured are also seem more intelligent.

 

They're not afraid of being confident.

 

Confident individuals don't shy away from asserting² themselves, whether they're actually feeling comfortable or just faking it until they make it. As singer Demi Lovato's recent single so poignantly³ asks,"What's wrong with being confident?" The answer: Nothing at all.

 

1 confidence   

n.信任，信托，自信，信心，把握，大胆，厚颜，过于自信，狂妄

参考例句：

• We have full confidence in our victory.我们有必胜的把握。
• I should like to exchange a few words with you in confidence.我想私下和你交换点意见。

2 asserting   

声称( assert的现在分词 )； 维护； 坚持自己的主张； 生效

参考例句：

• I threw myself into the lectures, defending, asserting the rights of women. 我投身到演讲活动中去，到处维护和申张妇女的权利。
• A statement asserting the existence of a trend is existential, not universal. 断定有某种趋势存在的命题是存在命题而不是全称命题。

3 poignantly   

参考例句：

• His story is told poignantly in the film, A Beautiful Mind, now showing here. 以他的故事拍成的电影《美丽境界》，正在本地上映。