ambiguity 的定义
plural am·bi·gu·i·ties.
- doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.
- an unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning, etc.: a contract free of ambiguities; the ambiguities of modern poetry.
ambiguity 近义词
uncertainty of meaning
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- In another, she explains that the profession does not tend to attract people who have “patience for ambiguity.”
- Such uncertainty generates stress, Boss said, and “coping with stress, coping with ambiguity, is especially hard.”
- For example, decades-old state laws have left some ambiguity about whether the council can on its own roll back a police commissioner’s discipline authority.
- It’s this moral ambiguity that modernizes the historical narrative, as scripted by Sarah Williams, who previously adapted Levy’s Small Island for the BBC.
- This ambiguity stands in contrast to recent news that suggests Flint’s story is headed for resolution.
- The ambiguity revolving around the event made it a poor candidate for a final showdown.
- Hollande is ‘the king of doublespeak, ambiguity, and perpetual lies’
- It was never a huge hit, but its stories resonated with an American public tenuously relearning moral ambiguity.
- But the ambiguity of “appropriate disciplinary action” is what is so frightening about the smoking ban.
- No one wants to go through life in a state of moral and existential ambiguity.
- If, however, we know that Garfield was born in 1831, the ambiguity would be removed.
- And if a policy is susceptible of two constructions, the ambiguity is to be resolved in favor of the insured.
- Ambiguity abounds everywhere and confounds everything; we are obliged at every word to exclaim, What do you mean?
- Thus, all that has been said of the pretended adoration exacted by Alexander is founded on ambiguity.
- The following are instances of great practical importance, in which arguments are habitually founded on a verbal ambiguity.