ambivalent

英 [æmˈbɪvələnt]

美 [æmˈbɪvələnt]

adj.  (忧喜参半、好坏参半等)矛盾情绪的

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牛津词典

adj.

• （忧喜参半、好坏参半等）矛盾情绪的
  having or showing both good and bad feelings about sb/sth
  1. She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job.
     她似乎对新工作忧喜参半。
  2. He has an ambivalent attitude towards her.
     他对她怀着矛盾的心情。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 摇摆不定的；犹豫不决的
  If you say that someone isambivalent aboutsomething, they seem to be uncertain whether they really want it, or whether they really approve of it.
  1. She remained ambivalent about her marriage...
     她对于自己的婚事仍然拿不定主意。
  2. He maintained an ambivalent attitude to the Church throughout his long life.
     在他漫长的一生中，他对基督教信仰始终是一种摇摆不定的态度。

英英释义

adj

• uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  1. was ambivalent about having children

双语例句

• Some in the field are ambivalent about such research.
  从事该领域研究工作的一些人对这样的研究心情矛盾。
• Conversely, for all Rio's economic dependence on China, it too is ambivalent.
  相反，尽管力拓在经济上依赖中国，但它也对中国存在矛盾心情。
• Most of us have an ambivalent attitude towards technology.
  我们当中大部分人对技术持一种矛盾的态度。
• She had been ambivalent about their Jewish friends and his relatives, though outwardly she seemed not a prejudiced person.
  她对他们的犹太朋友和他的亲戚有一种矛盾的心情，尽管她在外表上并不是个怀有偏见的人。
• She felt ambivalent about his proposal; an ambivalent position on rent control.
  她对他的建议感觉很矛盾；对出租管制的矛盾立场。
• The Chinese intelligentsia misreads, misplaces and misuses the western modernity. Third, its modernity is ambivalent.
  其次是误读的现代性资源，即中国现代知识界对西方现代性的误读、误植与误用。
• Local people always show their complex and ambivalent feelings by creating and telling legends of historical features and modifying their content to express their own feelings and evaluations to them.
  地方民众通过创作和讲述历史人物传说，及不断修改其内容来表述自己对历史人物的感情和评价，显示出其复杂感情和矛盾心理。
• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence.
  美国人对情报工作有种爱恨交织态度。
• The phrase "taking exercise" has an ambivalent ring for me.
  “锻炼”这个词会让我产生一种矛盾的感觉。
• Huxley himself was ambivalent about soma pills or their equivalent.
  赫胥黎自己就对体细胞类的药片或其替代品没有把握。