having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone (对事或人)有矛盾心态(或想法)的 some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her. 有些人爱她,有些人恨她,几乎没人对她持态度矛盾。 an ambivalent attitude to terrorism. 对恐怖主义的矛盾态度。
派生 ambivalence noun ambivalently adverb 语源
early 20th cent.: from ambivalence (from German Ambivalenz), on the pattern of equivalent