equivocation

英 [ɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃn]

美 [ɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃn]

n.  含糊其辞; 支吾; 搪塞

复数：equivocations　

GRE电力

BNC.33961 / COCA.25752

牛津词典

noun

• 含糊其辞；支吾；搪塞
  a way of behaving or speaking that is not clear or definite and is intended to avoid or hide the truth

柯林斯词典

• VERB 含糊其词;说模棱两可的话
  When someoneequivocates, they deliberately use vague language in order to deceive people or to avoid speaking the truth.
  1. He is equivocating a lot about what is going to happen if and when there are elections...
     他支支吾吾地说着很多万一进行选举会发生的状况。
  2. He had asked her once again about her finances. And again she had equivocated.
     他又一次询问她的财务状况，她再次含糊其词。

英英释义

noun

• falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
  Synonym:tergiversation
• intentionally vague or ambiguous
  Synonym:prevaricationevasiveness
• a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
  Synonym:evasion

双语例句

• I love that equivocation over Hong Kong.
  我喜欢她对香港人的含糊其辞。
• The source and characteristics of noise in remote sensing imagery are analyzed, with the concept of noise equivocation being further expatiated. Experiments are carried out to validate the formulas for calculating three kinds of noises which affect imagery information content.
  分析了遥感影像中噪声的来源和特性，对噪声疑义度的概念进行了更深刻的阐述，提出并用试验验证了影响影像信息量统计的三类噪声计算方法。
• You would wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
  你应该用含糊的语言来含糊他和你自己。
• He thought how ten minutes ago yes, only ten minutes there had still been equivocation in his heart as he wondered whether the news from the front would be of victory or defeat.
  他想起在十分钟之前是的，不过十分钟他在思量前线的消息、究竟是胜是负时，他心中还有疑惑。
• The result of this equivocation is to contrast the good of others with the good of the particular being that I am.
  这种模棱两可的结果，是将别人的善，跟作为「我」的特别的生命实存作对比。
• With this technique it is possible to adopt other important components of conventional information theory such as equivocation and redundancy.
  用这种方法就有可能采用常规信息论的其它重要成分，如模棱两可信息和多余信息。
• At the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, there is no equivocation but there is caution, said Stephen Heintz, its president.
  洛克菲勒兄弟基金会总裁斯蒂芬·海因兹（StephenHeintz）说，该基金会不是在含糊其辞，只是较为谨慎。
• Factors that result in geometric aberration are analyzed and formula for measuring the displacement equivocation is deepened through the validation of experiments. 4.
  对遥感影像产生几何畸变的因素进行了分析，深化了位移疑义度的概念和度量公式，并通过实验加以验证。
• The multiple-level relay-eavesdropper channel is proposed, the equivocation rate and the achievable secrecy rate are derived in discrete memoryless channel, and the decoding strategy is improved.
  在中继窃听信道的基础上，提出了有多级中继的窃听信道的模型，推导了离散无记忆信道下的疑义速率范围及可达安全速率的表达式。
• The proposed method can achieve fast convergence as well as high accuracy of estimation. It also solves the equivocation and slow convergence problems existing under the extreme condition that the crossing-zero is the initial sample of Gardner algorithm.
  该方法具有快速、高精度的特点，尤其是较好地解决了初始点为过零点的极端情况下，Gardner算法收敛方向不确定、收敛时间较长的问题。