ambiguity
ambiguity
(pl. -ies)
(pl. -ies)
- [mass noun]uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language
（语言）意义不明确，含糊
we can detect no ambiguity in this section of the Act.
法案的这个部分我们没有发觉有含糊不清的地方。
[count noun]ambiguities in such questions are potentially very dangerous.
这种问题里模糊不清的地方有很大的潜在危险。
■a lack of decisiveness or commitment resulting from a failure to make a choice between alternatives
模棱两可
the film is fraught with moral ambiguity.
这部影片充斥着道德上的暧昧。
- late Middle English : from Old French ambiguite or Latin ambiguitas, from ambiguus 'doubtful' (see ambiguous)
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