ambivalent

/æm'bivәlәnt/ uk　 词频 #10693

托福 TOEFL英语专业八级

ambivalent 是什么意思

中文释义

a. 矛盾的, 模棱两可的

[医] 矛盾情绪的

英文释义

s. uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow

ambivalent 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 ambivalent 在自然语境里怎么用：

In other words, the more ambivalent or ambiguous things are, the more we crave clarity and closure.

—— Is command-and-control leadership back in fashion?

The book is mostly about novels that depict characters who are ambivalent about having children.

—— “People in government today obviously don’t care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmless”

Even Michael’s pet name for Margaret was laced with this ambivalent mixture of affection and disdain: Bunny-no-good.

—— The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

The book’s ambivalent nostalgia has not kept it from succeeding prodigiously.

—— A Wunderkind’s Best-Selling Nostalgia

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