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单词 ambiguous
释义
ambiguous
adjective
uk
/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/us
/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/
C2
having orexpressingmore than onepossiblemeaning, sometimesintentionally:
含糊不清的；引起歧义的，模棱两可的；不明确的
Hisreplyto myquestionwassomewhatambiguous.他对我的提问回答得有些含糊不清。
Thewordingof theagreementis ambiguous.该协议的措词模棱两可。
Thegovernmenthas been ambiguous on thisissue.在此问题上政府立场一直不明确。
Synonyms
ambivalent
equivocalformal
More examples
  • Thecontractisphrasedin aratherambiguous way.
  • Hisattitudetoenvironmentalissueswas sometimesquiteambiguous.
  • Legalexpertsclaimthat thelawon thismatteris ambiguous, and that the way thecompanyinterpretedit wasreasonable.
  • What do youthinkthetitlereallymeans? It'sratherambiguous, isn't it?
  • If you don't use thecorrectgrammarthemeaningcan be a bitambiguous andleadtoconfusion.
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Related word

ambiguously
(Definition ofambiguousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

ambiguous| American Dictionary

ambiguous
adjective
us
/æmˈbɪɡ·ju·əs/
having orexpressingmore than onepossiblemeaning, sometimesintentionally:
The movie’sendingis ambiguous.
(Definition ofambiguousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

ambiguous| Business English

ambiguous
adjective
uk
/æmˈbɪɡjuəs/us
having more than onepossiblemeaning, andthereforelikelytocauseconfusion:
Manycompaniesareappealingagainst theruling, because thewordingis ambiguous.
(Definition ofambiguousfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofambiguous

ambiguous
There will beambiguoussituations in which learning should not be permitted.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Overlapping receptive fields with different spatial-frequency sensitivities may be essential for "normalizing"ambiguousganglion cell responses across luminance change.
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Innovations in agriculture tend to promote deforestation, although in the case of land-augmenting technical change this result isambiguous.
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Many tasks involve sensory information that isambiguous, and other sources of information may be required for adequate perception.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Of course, ultimately, the evidence of the actual physical enforcement of the oath isambiguous.
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Hence, we decided to categorize all instances of extra vowels at the end of a noun asambiguous.
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Second, although complex, there is nothing really metricallyambiguousabout this section.
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Nevertheless, the criteria used to define specificity are somewhatambiguousbecause there is no clear crossover between ' specific ' and ' non-specific ' binding.
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The feedback from the reviewers led to reformulation ofambiguousitems and removal of overlapping and value-laden items.
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Their status in these texts is thereforeambiguous, with both morphological and phonological factors restricting their use.
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Can we deduce from it that inherentlyambiguousstimuli always get resolved one way or the other?
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That his written statements about the bridge produce an image at once ' ' complex ' ' and ' 'ambiguous' ' - more ' ' antipathy ' ' than ' ' advocacy ' ' - has often seemed irrelevant.
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The evidence suggests, therefore, that won has no subject-number feature at all, rather than that it isambiguousbetween singular and plural.
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We encoded secondary structure in the alignment, identifying stems, loops and bulges, and manually excluded regions ofambiguousalignment from the final dataset.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Second, languages may differ in terms of where reflexives (not just m-reflexives) may exhibit thisambiguous(or dual) status.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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