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词汇 tergiversation
释义 tergiversation
noun[ C or U ]
 formaluk /ˌtɜː.dʒɪ.vəˈseɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌtɜ˞ː.dʒɪ.vɚˈseɪ.ʃən/
the act of making statements that are different from each other, so that they cannot both be true: (陈述、表态等)相互抵触,搪塞
His tergiversations suggest a mind uncomfortable with either a Western or an Eastern identity.他相互抵触的言论表明他对西方或东方的身份都感觉不舒服。
the fact of not being loyal to someone or something转变立场;变节,背叛
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make (a) nonsense of somethingidiom
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speak for yourselfidiom

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Disloyalty, betrayal & treason

Examples of tergiversation


tergiversation
Short-term tergiversations were in part cyclical, related as they were to the seasonal character of longdistance commerce, land-based and maritime alike.
I wonder what happened to account for one of the most bare-faced tergiversations, if that is not mixing my metaphors, in parliamentary history.
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Despite all the tergiversations and excuses, the system is unsatisfactory.
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Let us, out of charity, pass the sponge over their former tergiversations.
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One smiles like an accomplice in their doubts, slippings and tergiversations.
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Despised by all for his tergiversations, he nevertheless was sought by all on account of his cleverness.
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They might come into new talks, but they are masters of tergiversation.
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I can only describe the speech as being circumlocutory, peripatetic, and a gross piece of tergiversation.
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I was in no way implying that his very vigorous and clear speech this afternoon represented any tergiversation on his part.
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Is this tergiversation in order?
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Now she has performed a complete tergiversation.
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