ambiguous
外观
英語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]源自拉丁語 ambiguus (“左右搖擺的,性質可疑的”),該詞衍生自ambigere (“四處走動、徘徊、懷疑”),由ambi- (“周圍、大約、兩側”)與agere (“驅動、移動”)組成。
發音
[编辑]- (英國) 國際音標(幫助): /æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/
- (美國,加拿大) 國際音標(幫助): /æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/, [ɛəmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs]
- (澳大利亞) 國際音標(幫助): /æmˈbɪɡ.jʉ.əs/
- 韻部:-ɪɡjuəs
- 斷字:am‧bi‧gu‧ous
形容詞
[编辑]ambiguous (比較級 more ambiguous,最高級 most ambiguous)
- 引起歧義的,模棱两可的
- 近義詞:equivocal, unclear;亦參見Thesaurus:vague
- 反義詞:unambiguous, clear
- The politician was criticized for his ambiguous statements and lack of precision.
- 這位政治人物因模稜兩可的言論與缺乏精準度而受到批評。
- 模糊的,難以理解的
- (棄用,形容人) 猶豫的,遲疑的
- 1662,Thomas Salusbury,Mathematical collections and translations, in two tomes - Salusbury:
- And forasmuch as in this same question I am ambiguous, and Simplicius is resolute....
- 鑑於在此問題上我仍游移不定,而辛普利休斯立場堅決...
衍生詞
[编辑]關聯詞
[编辑]參見
[编辑]擴展閱讀
[编辑]- “ambiguous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ambiguous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
參考資料
[编辑]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “ambiguous”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.