例句：
The confidence man befooled the innocent.
骗子愚弄了幼稚的人。
He is a confidence man. He will do you before you know where you are.
他是一个骗子，当你清醒过来之前他已经把你骗了。
The confidence man found his next target soon.
这个骗子很快找到了他的下一个目标。
01
confidence game/trick
同理，confidence game也不是“信任游戏”，而是“（获得对方信任后的）欺骗”。
Confidence game: a swindle in which the victim is defrauded after his or her confidence has been won.
骗取受害者的信任后再行诈骗的欺诈行为。
例句：
Funding is such a confidence game.
筹资是一场欺骗游戏。
02
in confidence
秘密地
confidence作名词时，还可表示“保密，机密”，尤指“保密的谈话”。
例句：
Eva told me about their relationship in confidence.
伊娃对我透露了他们俩的关系这个秘密。
We told you all these things in confidence.
我们告诉你的这些事情都是保密的。
03
breach of confidence
breach of confidence是英式表达，一般用在法律领域，用来表示“某人泄露了他们应该保密的信息”。
breach / briːtʃ / n.违反，破坏
breach of ... : ……的违约
breach of confidence =泄露机密；破坏信用
例句：
He refused to disclose what had been told him, on the ground that it would be a breach of confidence.
他拒绝透露别人告诉他的事情，因为这是一种背信行为。
There he stood now, guilty of this miserable breach of confidence and talking about what he had done for her!
他明明可耻地辜负了她对他的信任，现在却还站在那里高谈阔论他帮过她！
04
have confidence in
对…有信心
注意这个搭配的介词是“in”，不是“on”。因为信心这种东西，是由内而外的，所以用“in”，不要再写错啦。
