ambivalence 的定义
- uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
- Psychology. the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.
ambivalence 近义词
equivocation
更多ambivalence例句
- One is that besides the workers and businesses that serve the industry, there’s a certain ambivalence among residents about the Convention Center and the tourism sector as a whole.
- The FDA approved LYMErix in 1998, but with a great deal of ambivalence.
- As years have passed, my desire for a family has only grown, but hers has diminished while her ambivalence increased.
- She has expressed much ambivalence over the years but never officially ruled it out.
- Despite a nice conversation, “there is a little bit of ambivalence or apathy after the initial date,” Shiri said, unable to pinpoint the reasons.
- But there is much ambivalence between her bright colors and sharp lines.
- The ambivalence is reflected in U.S. policy, which often has served to complicate aid delivery in conflict zones.
- A strong note of ambivalence is also present in the conflict over love and duty between Gromov and his wife.
- All parties display ambivalence, all the characters lie to themselves, everyone has someone else they blame.
- The see-sawing ambivalence neatly reflects how badly and misguidedly politicians and political parties approach women.
- But now also the psychological fatality of ambivalence demands its rights.
- Once again he was conscious of a strange ambivalence in his attitude.
- With the decline of this ambivalence the taboo, as the compromise symptom of the ambivalent conflict, also slowly disappeared.
- He remembers this leading to an intense relationship that he looks back upon with a disturbing ambivalence.