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

• He thought how ten minutes ago yes, only ten minutes there had still been equivocation in his heart as he wondered whether the news from the front would be of victory or defeat.
  他想起在十分钟之前是的，不过十分钟他在思量前线的消息、究竟是胜是负时，他心中还有疑惑。
• Huang chose to sign with ABC in deference to the residual power of network television to alter mass perceptions about race, and he had hoped to portray the Asian-immigrant experience without equivocation or compromise.
  黄选择跟ABC合作，是觉得电视网还有一定的残余影响力，可以改变公众对种族的看法。他希望能够毫不含糊、毫无妥协地描绘亚洲移民的生活经历。
• Otherwise you get an equivocation. Wouldn't you?
  否则你就是在说同样的话，不是吗？
• 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。
• Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
  含糊其词是谎言的近亲。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。