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

• 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。
• 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。
• This equivocation has carried through to his trade policy appointments.
  他的这种含糊态度延续到了他对一众贸易政策官员的任命上。
• 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。
• On my first day in office, I prohibited without exception or equivocation the use of torture by the United States of America.
  在我就任总统的第一天，我宣布美国毫无例外、坚定不移地禁止酷刑。
• I love that equivocation over Hong Kong.
  我喜欢她对香港人的含糊其辞。
• 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。
• A clear distinction must be drawn between right and wrong, for inner-Party controversies over principle are a reflection inside the Party of the class struggle in society, and no equivocation is to be tolerated.
  是非一定要搞清楚，因为党内的原则争论，是社会上阶级斗争在党内的反映，是不允许含糊的。
• Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, and eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.
  一些人学会了玩狡猾借口的把戏，他们用含糊不清代替真相，以持保留态度来竭力自圆其说，在好人看来这实在讨厌。
• 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。