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这里为大家介绍下equivocal 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

音标：[ i"kwivəkəl ]

中英文翻译

adj.

1.歧义的，语义双关的，多义的。

2.暧昧的，含糊的，可疑的。

3.不肯定的，不明确的。

adv.

-ly ,-ness n.

open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer""s equivocal behavior increased the victim""s uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"

同义词：ambiguous,

uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"

open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-Anna Jameson

例句与用法

1.The ancient oracles were often vague and equivocal .

古代的神谕常是意义模糊和模棱两可的。

2.Old grandet"s equivocal mirth was as grateful as sunshine .

葛朗台老头那种叫人猜不透意思的笑，真象一道阳光似的。

3.You must state your position on matters of principle. do n"t be equivocal .

在原则问题上要表明你的态度，不要依违两可。

4.On matters of principle we should be clear-cut in attitude , and by no means be equivocal .

在原则问题上，我们必须态度鲜明，决不能模棱两可。

5.Macbeth now began to faint in resolution, and to doubt the equivocal speeches of the spirits .

这时候，麦克白的决心开始动摇了，他怀疑起鬼魂说的暖昧的话了。

6.A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms .

市声的喧闹，生活的吆喝，鳞次栉比的楼房，用暖昧的言词叩动那受惊的心弦。

7.Descriptions of sandstone bodies are commonly incomplete, and the interpretations placed on their origins may be equivocal .

对砂岩体的描述通常不是完全的，因此对它们成因的解释也可能是不明确的。

8.The politician gave an equivocal answer

那政客的答覆模棱两可

9.Television " s contribution to family life has been an equivocal one

电视对家庭生活的影响是有争议的。

10.The rhetoric effect of equivocal sentences

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