ambivalent

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  • adj.（忧喜参半、好坏参半等）矛盾情绪的
  • n.两性人
  • Web矛盾的；有矛盾看法的；有矛盾心理的

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ambivalent
adj.
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~ (about/towards sb/sth)
（忧喜参半、好坏参半等）矛盾情绪的having or showing both good and bad feelings about sb/sth
She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job.
她似乎对她的新工作忧喜参半。
He has an ambivalent attitude towards her.
他对她怀着矛盾的心情。

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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。）
( jiǎn duì yú hé tāng mǔ de dìng hūn réng jiù gǎn dào hěn máo dùn , yīn wèi tā fā xiàn tā dào xiàn zài hái fēi cháng zài yì mài kè 。 )
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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。
kào zhe líng qiǎo de chǔ shì néng lì hé shàn yú qīng tīng , tā céng huā le jǐ shí nián de shí jiān lái jì zǎi tā nà zhuān gù zì jǐ de tóng bèi rén de máo dùn yù wàng 。
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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？
rú guǒ fú luò yī dé bú shì rú cǐ de pái huái zài tā de yóu tài shēn fèn de rèn tóng , jīng shén fēn xī de lì shǐ huì jiāng shì zěn yàng de ne ?
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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。
qí zuò zhě fā xiàn nà xiē jiē jìn dàn shì bìng bù chǔ yú shōu rù fēn pèi zuì dī duān dì rén duì gèng duō de zài fēn pèi yǒu zhe shēn shēn de fù zá qíng xù 。
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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。
tuī cè lái kàn , wǒ men zhěng jié gān jìng méi yǒu zhū pǎo lái pǎo qù de cǎo píng huì gěi tā liú xià hěn shēn de yìn xiàng , dàn tā hěn nán bù gǎn jué dào zì xiāng máo dùn 。
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First, India's colonial heritage has left it with an ambivalent attitude to English, along with a desire to preserve local languages.
首先，印度的殖民地历史，使其在对待英语的态度上十分矛盾，同时它还希望保留当地语言。
shǒu xiān , yìn dù de zhí mín dì lì shǐ , shǐ qí zài duì dài yīng yǔ de tài du shàng shí fēn máo dùn , tóng shí tā hái xī wàng bǎo liú dāng dì yǔ yán 。
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She had been ambivalent about their Jewish friends and his relatives , though outwardly she seemed not a prejudiced person .
她对他们的犹太朋友和他的亲戚有一种矛盾的心情，尽管她在外表上并不是个怀有偏见的人。
tā duì tā men de yóu tài péng yǒu hé tā de qīn qi yǒu yī zhǒng máo dùn de xīn qíng , jǐn guǎn tā zài wài biǎo shàng bìng bú shì gè huái yǒu piān jiàn de rén 。
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She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job.
她似乎对新工作觉得很矛盾。
tā sì hū duì xīn gōng zuò jué de hěn máo dùn 。
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He remained ambivalent for a long while about actual nature of light .
他在光的实际本性问题上犹豫过很久。
tā zài guāng de shí jì běn xìng wèn tí shàng yóu yù guò hěn jiǔ 。
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Guo Yuozhang, 63, whose grandson attends the Loulong school, said he was more ambivalent.
郭耀章今年63岁，他的孙子在洛龙小学读书，他说的显得比较矛盾。
guō yào zhāng jīn nián liù shí sān suì , tā de sūn zi zài luò lóng xiǎo xué dú shū , tā shuō de xiǎn de bǐ jiào máo dùn 。
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