confidant的意思|confidant的解释-里氏词典

confidant [,kɒnfi'dænt]

n. 心腹朋友, 知己

I have a good confidant.
我有一个好知己。
A close friend or confidant.
至交亲密的朋友或知己
What in the world? What does your confidant take me for?
在世界上你可否认为我是你的同伴?

confidant

[ noun ]
someone to whom private matters are confided
<noun.person>

Confidant \Con`fi*dant"\; 277), n. masc., Confidante
\Con`fi*dante"\ (?; 277), n. fem.[F. confident, confidente,
formerly also spelt confidant, confidante. See {Confide}, and
cf. {Confident}.]
One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of
love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom
friend.

You love me for no other end
Than to become my confidant and friend;
As such I keep no secret from your sight. --Dryden.

Billie Sol Estes, a confidant of Lyndon Johnson who went to prison for a fertilizer-tank scam in the 1960s, has filed for bankruptcy, claiming debts of $52 million and assets of just $150.
Nicholas Brady, a Wall Street investment banker who is also a close confidant of Bush, has emerged as a leading candidate to succeed Baker.
Some of his erstwhile close aides, including Alexander Yakovlev, a longtime Gorbachev confidant and the godfather of glasnost, have quit the party in disgust recently, calling it "unreformable."
The absence of Mr. Casey, a presidential confidant since he managed Mr. Reagan's 1980 campaign, will give Mr. Shultz a greater opportunity to act on a September presidential decision making State the lead agency in setting Nicaraguan policy.
Peggy Griffith testified last week that Watkins, a Mecham confidant, told her that if Ms. Carlson did not keep her mouth shut about an unreported Mecham campaign loan she might "go on a long boat ride" and come to harm.
He is a close confidant to the first lady, and his office opened directly into the Oval Office, so he could enter unannounced whenever he wished.
Now, as President Reagan struggles with the continuing fallout of the Iran-Contra affair, his confidant and attorney general is under pressure as well.
Reagan's close friend and confidant, Paul Laxalt, said that the next time around, "we will let Reagan be Reagan." That 1984 faceoff also had stirred up the "age issue" _ the flip side of an issue that has dogged Quayle.
Then Brountas, a college classmate and longtime confidant of Dukakis, began painstakingly gathering information on prospective running mates.
Of course, if Georgia O'Keeffe were alive, one word would clarify it," says Juan Hamilton, a fellow Abiquiu artist who was O'Keeffe's helper and confidant during her last 13 years.
Among those serving on the presidential council are Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Alexander Yakovlev, a Gorbachev confidant, and the heads of the army and KGB.
Chairman Alvin V. Shoemaker; and the late Justin Dart, a California businessman who was a confidant of President Reagan.
He was not best pleased at being removed from the top of Union des Assurances de Paris to make way for Jacques Friedmann, a Gaullist and confidant of the French prime minister.
The movie, written by Ken Trevey, also stars Beth Grant as Tammy's confidant, Richard Herd as Bakker assistant Richard Dortch, and Richard Paul as the Rev. Jerry Falwell.
Some call him Mr. Wright's confidant.
Papandreou hasn't given any hints about who might eventually succeed him as PASOK leader, but Koutsogiorgas, 69, the premier's personal lawyer and his closest political confidant, is considered the strongest contender.
Former national security adviser and occasional Bush confidant Zbigniew Brzezinski suspects that Mr. Dukakis, who once barred his state's National Guard from service in Central America, has a "strong pacifist impulse, deeply rooted."
The Legal Times newspaper on Monday quoted two sources it did not identify as saying Reid, the mayor's counsel and confidant, had tried to make a deal through the columnist's son, Carl Rowan Jr.
The president praised Meese, his confidant of two decades, as a "darned good attorney general" and said he had no one in mind to succeed him. "That will all come later," said the president.
Ivan T. Frolov, a Gorbachev confidant, was named editor-in-chief of Pravda last week.
Earlier this week, Fumio Abe, a confidant of Mr. Miyazawa and former secretary general of his faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was arrested for allegedly demanding and receiving $625,000 in bribes from Kyowa.
A 14-month investigation into the financial dealings of Edwin Meese III concluded that a real estate magnate and a confidant of the attorney general "may have had ulterior motives" in helping arrange a $40,000-a-year salary for Meese's wife.
His work made him a confidant of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
It has already claimed the heads of Mr Rudolf Seiters, the interior minister and a close confidant of the chancellor, and of Mr Alexander von Stahl, the federal prosecutor.
Czeslaw Kiszczak, a long-time Communist and confidant of President Wojciech Jaruzelski.
I do know that some very important documents have disappeared," said Afanasyev, director of Moscow's State Historical Archives Institute since 1986 and a confidant of the Soviet leader.
He was a confidant of Konrad Adenauer and helped forge Germany's metamorphosis from defeated Reich to economic powerhouse.
The premier's closest political confidant, Deputy Premier and Justice Minister Agamemnon Koutsogiorgas, kept both posts in the reshuffle.
But much to his regret, an early confidant, Clair George, former head of the CIA's operations branch, now faces perjury charges based in large part on Mr. Fiers's testimony.
More pragmatic Bush partisans prefer the current vice presidential chief of staff, Craig Fuller, a likable and low-key Bush confidant who yesterday was named co-director of the transition team, along with pollster Robert Teeter.

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