| 词汇 | equivocate |
| 释义 | equivocate verb[ I ] formaluk /ɪˈkwɪv.ə.keɪt/ us /ɪˈkwɪv.ə.keɪt/ to speak in a way that is intentionally not clear and confusing to other people, especially to hide the truth: （尤指为隐瞒真相而）说模棱两可的话，含糊其词 She accused the minister of equivocating, claiming that he had deliberately avoided telling the public how bad the problem really was.她指责部长含糊其词，称他故意不让公众知道问题真正严重到了什么地步。 Synonym prevaricateformal Digressing and being indirect or evasive bury the ledeidiom candy coat candy coating candy-coated circumlocution circumlocutory f-bomb get on to/onto something glancingly gloss over something go off on a tangentidiom implicit obscure parry prevaricate stray tangent tiptoe around something/someone unexpressed unvoiced Related wordequivocation Examples of equivocateequivocate More importantly, when economists assign technical meanings to terms, they must also avoid equivocating. In discussions of female fans, he equivocates; and here the essentialist cracks in his argument begin to show. There are situations where, rather than trying to force an exact match with a fine-grained sense, it may be more prudent to equivocate by choosing a less-specific cluster of senses. Participants used filled pauses, surprisingly, in the condition within which they equivocated the least, although they produced other dysfluencies (combined) within conditions where they equivocated the most. The issue we need to focus on here is not the tactility per se, but how its meanings and consequences reverberate through equivocating networks of power. We do not have time to equivocate or pontificate about where competence may lie. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To equivocate in answering these points would be to show a lack of political courage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No doubt this is because many governments, like our own, are equivocating about the desirability of the establishment of such a centre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that point he would equivocate and his previous impeccable arithmetic would come unstuck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he going to say that it will be kept in being, or is he going to equivocate? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not equivocate on my second point: the need for a statutory register of qualified engineers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 None of us should equivocate about that or see it as problematic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we confirm it, it becomes unpleasant; if we equivocate, it is the equivalent of a cover-up, with all the row that ensues thereafter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he stop equivocating and giving ambivalent answers? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is danger in equivocating upon such subjects as that of partition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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