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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• With this technique it is possible to adopt other important components of conventional information theory such as equivocation and redundancy.
  用这种方法就有可能采用常规信息论的其它重要成分，如模棱两可信息和多余信息。