equivocation

[ɪ'kwɪvə'keʃən]
  • n. 含糊话；模棱两可的话
GRE

英文词源

equivocation (n.)
late 14c., "fallacy of using a word in different senses at different stages of the reasoning" (a loan-translation of Greek homonymia, literally "having the same name"), from Old French equivocation, from Late Latin aequivocationem (nominative aequivocatio), noun of action from aequivocus "of identical sound, of equal voice, of equal significance, ambiguous, of like sound," past participle of aequivocare, from aequus "equal" (see equal (adj.)) + vocare "to call" (see voice (n.)).

双语例句

1. Why doesn't the President say so without equivocation?
为什么总统不直截了当地说呢？
来自柯林斯例句
2. These actions must be condemned without equivocation.
对这些行为必须毫不含糊地予以谴责。
来自辞典例句
3. With caution, and with some equivocation, Bohr took a further step.
玻尔谨慎地而又有些含糊其词地采取了更深入的步骤.
来自辞典例句
4. Then she with a pretty equivocation went on: " Julia is about my height. "
然后她用巧妙的双关话说: “ 朱利娅差不多跟我一般高. ”
来自辞典例句
5. I do not suspect him of equivocation, still less of lying.
我不认为他在闪烁其词, 更不用说怀疑他撒谎了.
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