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

• And that's a result of equivocation or we are equivocating on the word bank.
  这是说同样话的结果，或者我们说bank这个词的不同意思。
• The multiple-level relay-eavesdropper channel is proposed, the equivocation rate and the achievable secrecy rate are derived in discrete memoryless channel, and the decoding strategy is improved.
  在中继窃听信道的基础上，提出了有多级中继的窃听信道的模型，推导了离散无记忆信道下的疑义速率范围及可达安全速率的表达式。
• 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。
• He that will live in this world must be endowed with the three rare qualities of dissimulation, equivocation, and mental reservation.
  举凡有意在这世上谋求生存者，必须具备三种难得的天资：掩饰感情、含糊其词、保留己见。
• Factors that result in geometric aberration are analyzed and formula for measuring the displacement equivocation is deepened through the validation of experiments. 4.
  对遥感影像产生几何畸变的因素进行了分析，深化了位移疑义度的概念和度量公式，并通过实验加以验证。
• 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。
• 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。
• You would wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
  你应该用含糊的语言来含糊他和你自己。
• But Congressional equivocation also reflects Congressional ambivalence.
  但是国会的模棱两可也反映了国会的矛盾心理。
• Otherwise you get an equivocation. Wouldn't you?
  否则你就是在说同样的话，不是吗？