【ambivalent】 - AEAS备考词汇

ambivalent

UK:  [æm'bɪvələnt]

US:  [æm'bɪvələnt]

n.

1.两性人

2.利害二值

adj.

1.(对人或事务)有矛盾感情的

2.有一种矛盾心情

3.有矛盾心理的

4.矛盾情绪的

5.好恶参半的

6.有分歧意见的

1 . Its authors note that those near but not at the bottom of the income distribution are often deeply ambivalent about greater redistribution.
其作者发现那些接近但是并不处于收入分配最低端的人对更多的再分配有着深深的复杂情绪。

2 . W hat would the history of psychoanalysis look like if Sigmund Freud had not been so very ambivalent about his Jewishness?
如果弗洛伊德不是如此的徘徊在他的犹太身份的认同，精神分析的历史会将是怎样的呢？

3 . Presumably, the neatness of our pigless yards would impress him. But it is hard not to feel that he would, at least, be ambivalent.
推测来看，我们整洁干净没有猪跑来跑去的草坪会给他留下很深的印象，但他很难不感觉到自相矛盾。

4 . With a light touch and keen ear, she had spent decades chronicling the ambivalent desires of her self-absorbed cohort.
靠着灵巧的处事能力和擅于倾听，她曾花了几十年的时间来记载她那专顾自己的同辈人的矛盾欲望。

5 . Jane became ambivalent about her engagement to Tom as she realized she still cared so much about Mike.
（简对于和汤姆的订婚仍旧感到很矛盾，因为她发现她到现在还非常在意迈克。）