| 单词 | ambiguity |
| 释义 | ambiguity (once / 3093 pages) n Something with ambiguity is unclear. Think about the sentence, "Jill saw the man with binoculars." If you are wondering whether Jill or the man had the binoculars, you are noticing the ambiguity, or the double meaning, of this sentence. Lawyers word contracts to avoid ambiguity, but in doing so prevent anyone who is not a lawyer from understanding what they have written! If you can't choose between two decisions because both seem somehow wrong, you are dealing with moral ambiguity. Imagine if a friend who has helped you out many times asks you to cheat. It's wrong to cheat but it also seems wrong not to help someone who has been there for you. WORD FAMILYambiguity: ambiguities, unambiguity+/ambiguous: ambiguity, ambiguously, unambiguous/unambiguous: unambiguously USAGE EXAMPLESThe source of the ambiguity that faces us is, of course, the outcome of the election. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) The force of Hopper’s art is located within the piercing sense of possibility that the paintings convey, the sense of ambiguity and essential unknowability. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Such ambiguity was a huge part of 1980s pop. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) 1n unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper equivocalness unambiguity, unequivocalness clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity equivocation, evasiveness, prevarication intentionally vague or ambiguous lexical ambiguity, polysemythe ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings no man's land, twilight zonethe ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both) unclearness incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear 2n an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context Hypo|Hyper loophole an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation amphibology, amphibolyan ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes parisologythe use of ambiguous words double entendrean ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate expression, locution, saying a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations |
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