| 单词 | ambiguous |
| 释义 | ambiguous (æmbɪgjuəs ) 1. adjective If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way. This agreement is very ambiguous and open to various interpretations. They may not be fully aware of what they are voting for because of ambiguous language on the ballot paper. ambiguously adverb [usually ADVERB with verb, oft ADVERB adjective] Zaire's national conference on democracy ended ambiguously. 2. adjective If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it contains several different ideas or attitudes that do not fit well together. Students have ambiguous feelings about their role in the world. Collocations: ambiguous character In chapter 29 an ambiguous character known simply as a man appears. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including politicians, executives and lawyers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wrestlers portray villains or heroes, or more ambiguous characters in scripted contests that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match on the pay-per-view. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The film's ambiguous ending could really not be bettered. Times, Sunday Times And the ambiguous ending wasn't enough for me to consider this the 'classic' many have praised it as. The Sun But if you want to sell your script, an ambiguous ending can be risky. Times, Sunday Times The focus group would certainly have voted down the ambiguous ending. Times, Sunday Times It has a gloomy story, an ambiguous ending, allows various interpretations, and deals with the theme of messianism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What he found, though, was a much more morally ambiguous figure, one whose wartime escapades were both troubling and intriguing. Times, Sunday Times At her peak she was an ambiguous figure, hard to define. Times, Sunday Times In this environment, detectives were morally ambiguous figures. Times, Sunday Times Sets can be created by motivation and so can result in people interpreting ambiguous figures so that they see what they want to see. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They may not be fully aware of what they are voting for because of ambiguous language on the ballot paper, or how propositions will contradict existing legislation. The Times Literary Supplement It refers to the deliberate use of ambiguous language on a sensitive issue in order to advance some political purpose. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, the act was largely ineffectual thanks in part to its ambiguous language. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Hypnotic suggestions are often couched in a somewhat vague, general or ambiguous language requiring interpretation by the subject. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ambiguous nature of student speech rights has universal impact. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As for the rest, the ambiguous nature of the evidence should ensure that the scandal blows over after a few awkward days. Times, Sunday Times Misinterpretations can occur due to the highly ambiguous nature of the communication. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other statements may have an ambiguous nature that makes them potentially appealing to different audiences who may interpret them in particular ways and circulate them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ambiguous nature of the programme extends to its main characters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They lack the complicated and ambiguous relationship with colonial authorities, the territorial and one-directional approach to mission, the support of parachurch structures, the perceived attitudes of cultural superiority. Times, Sunday Times An ambiguous relationship with figuration comes into play here too. The Times Literary Supplement In their collage-like appearance they establish a complex and ambiguous relationship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When choosing their name, the band seemed to be inspired by an ambiguous relationship towards their hometown which they felt to be rather provincial. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two maintain an ambiguous relationship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For such a complex and ambiguous role he blew me away yet again. The Sun Sport played a vital but morally ambiguous role in that war. Times, Sunday Times The auditory cortex plays an important yet ambiguous role in hearing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In morally ambiguous situations, we look first at how others are behaving. Times,Sunday Times Love has produced many ambiguous situations and relationships, but seldom can the emotional lacerations inflicted by individuals, particularly on themselves, have been transformed into such an unusual novel. The Times Literary Supplement These negative cognitions may be characterized by: attention to negative stimuli, the perception of ambiguous situations as negative, and the recurrence of recalling negative words. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In ambiguous situations, the individual's appraisal of the situation and subsequent action or inaction largely depends on the reactions of other people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By leveraging the fact ambiguous situations require people to participate in making meaning designers can thus relinquish control to the users in interpreting the system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sometimes a confusing or ambiguous statement made in a speech can attract attention in the media. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What we know of the narrator comes from a series of ambiguous statements, which he makes with an air of dry, comic detachment. The Times Literary Supplement By making a large number of ambiguous statements in each sitting, the psychic gives the client more opportunities to find a match. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It protects public officials against the risk that their unwitting ambiguous statements may create legitimate expectations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The story was a fantasy about an oak tree that served as an oracle and delivered ambiguous statements. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A lexical chain can provide a context for the resolution of an ambiguous term and enable identification of the concept that the term represents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A less ambiguous term for this might be network agnostic services. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Commonly used and ambiguous terms should be defined. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Companies use these ambiguous terms to promote goods and services, sometimes with additional, more specific certifications, such as eco-labels. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 More ambiguous terms for a privately held company are unquoted company and unlisted company. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They simply apply statistical methods to the words surrounding the ambiguous word. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These words usually reflected one or another meaning of an ambiguous word or phrase or are unrelated control words in the recorded sentence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ambiguous word truly was not defined. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Maverick, ambiguous words would only distract and mislead. Times, Sunday Times Fundamental rights cannot be overridden by general or ambiguous words. Times,Sunday Times Many were offered deliberately ambiguous formulae, which it was hoped they could agree to without sacrificing their private convictions. Times, Sunday Times Despised phrases include 'open the kimono', 'blue sky thinking' and 'thought shower', with three out of four people questioned saying job adverts could be deliberately ambiguous. Times, Sunday Times These images are deliberately ambiguous - such as the figure of a lonely man standing on the landing next to a lift. The Times Literary Supplement Instead, the lawyer drew up a deliberately ambiguous 'confession' to placate those pursuing him. Times, Sunday Times Vanessa remains deliberately ambiguous in her political views. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Intentionally ambiguous laws and regulations are common in such systems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Critics have offered various interpretations of the film's message, particularly the intentionally ambiguous imagery in the ending. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ending was left intentionally ambiguous. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The conference produced a legislative agenda intended to destroy environmentalism and promote the wise use of natural resources - an intentionally ambiguous phrase strategically appropriated from the early conservation movement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He's a lot of complicated things, morally ambiguous. The Sun But it's the ideas behind the words that count as much as the artfully plain-spoken, morally ambiguous words themselves. Times, Sunday Times In his gray, morally ambiguous world, bad things happen all the time. Christianity Today It's dark and morally ambiguous — and all the more intriguing for it. Times, Sunday Times Those tough, morally ambiguous issues are where some business people have to live out their faith. Christianity Today A key reason for him not bowing out with a mould-breaking vote for a rates rise, he said, was the 'somewhat ambiguous signals from the labour market'. Times, Sunday Times The expanded and refined damage indicators and degrees of damage standardize what was somewhat ambiguous. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This has a somewhat ambiguous interpretation, but may have referred to a sunlit place. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Originally, the relationship between the departments and the central government was left somewhat ambiguous. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Consequently, it remains somewhat ambiguous in what way such prices exist in reality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 模棱两可的 Japanese: あいまいな |
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