late 14c., "fallacy of using a word in different senses at different stages of the reasoning" (a loan-translation of Greek homonymia, literally "having the same name"), from Old French equivocation, from Late Latin aequivocationem (nominative aequivocatio), noun of action from aequivocus "of identical sound, of equal voice, of equal significance, ambiguous, of like sound," past participle of aequivocare, from aequus "equal" (see equal (adj.)) + vocare "to call" (see voice (n.)).
雙語例句
1. Why doesn't the President say so without equivocation?
為什么總統(tǒng)不直截了當?shù)卣f呢？
來自柯林斯例句
2. These actions must be condemned without equivocation.
對這些行為必須毫不含糊地予以譴責。
來自辭典例句
3. With caution, and with some equivocation, Bohr took a further step.
玻爾謹慎地而又有些含糊其詞地采取了更深入的步驟.
來自辭典例句
4. Then she with a pretty equivocation went on: " Julia is about my height. "
然后她用巧妙的雙關話說: “ 朱利婭差不多跟我一般高. ”
來自辭典例句
5. I do not suspect him of equivocation, still less of lying.