equivocation

英 [ɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃn]

美 [ɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃn]

n.  含糊其辞; 支吾; 搪塞

复数：equivocations　

GRE电力

BNC.33961 / COCA.25752

牛津词典

noun

• 含糊其辞；支吾；搪塞
  a way of behaving or speaking that is not clear or definite and is intended to avoid or hide the truth

柯林斯词典

• VERB 含糊其词;说模棱两可的话
  When someoneequivocates, they deliberately use vague language in order to deceive people or to avoid speaking the truth.
  1. He is equivocating a lot about what is going to happen if and when there are elections...
     他支支吾吾地说着很多万一进行选举会发生的状况。
  2. He had asked her once again about her finances. And again she had equivocated.
     他又一次询问她的财务状况，她再次含糊其词。

英英释义

noun

• falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
  Synonym:tergiversation
• intentionally vague or ambiguous
  Synonym:prevaricationevasiveness
• a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
  Synonym:evasion

双语例句

• Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
  含糊其词是谎言的近亲。
• The proposed method can achieve fast convergence as well as high accuracy of estimation. It also solves the equivocation and slow convergence problems existing under the extreme condition that the crossing-zero is the initial sample of Gardner algorithm.
  该方法具有快速、高精度的特点，尤其是较好地解决了初始点为过零点的极端情况下，Gardner算法收敛方向不确定、收敛时间较长的问题。
• The result of this equivocation is to contrast the good of others with the good of the particular being that I am.
  这种模棱两可的结果，是将别人的善，跟作为「我」的特别的生命实存作对比。
• At the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, there is no equivocation but there is caution, said Stephen Heintz, its president.
  洛克菲勒兄弟基金会总裁斯蒂芬·海因兹（StephenHeintz）说，该基金会不是在含糊其辞，只是较为谨慎。
• An equivocation is by the way an argument in which you use the same word which has two different meanings.
  说同样的话是一个论点，你们用同样的词有两个不同的意思。
• I love that equivocation over Hong Kong.
  我喜欢她对香港人的含糊其辞。
• Natural language has puns and equivocation so that it is impossible to find the relation between world and picture unless to create an ideal language.
  自然语言具有歧异性和模糊性，因此必须构造一种理想语言才能建立对世界的图像关系。
• But they can affirm the principles of Mr Geithner's proposals without equivocation.
  但他们可以明确确认盖特纳提议的原则。
• We gather because the time for equivocation is over.
  我们在此开会是因为不能再态度模棱两可了。
• With this technique it is possible to adopt other important components of conventional information theory such as equivocation and redundancy.
  用这种方法就有可能采用常规信息论的其它重要成分，如模棱两可信息和多余信息。