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ambiguous
1、 Doubtful or uncertain especially from being obscure or indistinct.
2、 Unclear in meaning because of being understandable in more than one way.
🌱Successful politicians are good at giving ambiguous answers to questions on difficult issues. 🌳Ambiguous comes from the Latin verb ambigere,"to be undecided." When we say someone's eyes are an ambiguous color, we mean we cannot decide which color they are—blue or green? The ambiguity of the Mona Lisa's smile makes us wonder what she's thinking about. An ambiguous order is one that can be taken in at least two ways; on the other hand, the order "Shut up!" may be rude but at least it's unambiguous. ambient Existing or present on all sides.
🌱The ambient lighting in the restaurant was low, and there was a bright candle at each table. 🌳Ambient light is the light that fills an area or surrounds something that's being viewed, like a television screen or a painting. Scientists sometimes refer to the ambient temperature, the temperature of the surrounding air. "Ambient music" is the term used today for "atmospheric" background music usually intended for relaxation or meditation. The candlelit restaurant in the example sentence is probably trying for a romantic ambience, or "atmosphere." ambivalent 1、 Holding opposite feelings and attitudes at the same time toward someone or something.
2、 Continually wavering between opposites or alternative courses of action.
🌱He was ambivalent about the trip: he badly wanted to travel but hated to miss the summer activities at home. 🌳Ambivalent is a fairly new word, less than a hundred years old, and, not surprisingly, it was first used by psychologists. Since being ambivalent means simply having mixed feelings about some question or issue, some of us spend most of our lives in a state of ambivalence. We might feel ambivalence about accepting a high-paying job that requires us to work long hours, about lending money to someone we like but don't know well—or about ordering a Tutti-Frutti Chocolate Banana Sundae El Supremo after we've been starving on a strict diet for weeks. ambit The range or limit covered by something （such as a law）.
🌱The treatment of farm animals generally falls outside the ambit of animal-cruelty laws in the U.S. 🌳Ambit is a rather formal term, often used by lawyers, as in, "With this new legislation, tobacco now falls within the ambit of FDA regulation." It almost always refers to something abstract rather than an actual physical range. So, for example, an immigrant might live completely within the ambit of her immigrant community until she started college, where she might find herself in a much broader social ambit. Most of the Latin American colonies were established by Spain, but in the 19th century, as the U.S. became stronger and Spain became weaker, they began to enter the ambit of U.S. power.
2、 Unclear in meaning because of being understandable in more than one way.
🌱Successful politicians are good at giving ambiguous answers to questions on difficult issues. 🌳Ambiguous comes from the Latin verb ambigere,"to be undecided." When we say someone's eyes are an ambiguous color, we mean we cannot decide which color they are—blue or green? The ambiguity of the Mona Lisa's smile makes us wonder what she's thinking about. An ambiguous order is one that can be taken in at least two ways; on the other hand, the order "Shut up!" may be rude but at least it's unambiguous. ambient Existing or present on all sides.
🌱The ambient lighting in the restaurant was low, and there was a bright candle at each table. 🌳Ambient light is the light that fills an area or surrounds something that's being viewed, like a television screen or a painting. Scientists sometimes refer to the ambient temperature, the temperature of the surrounding air. "Ambient music" is the term used today for "atmospheric" background music usually intended for relaxation or meditation. The candlelit restaurant in the example sentence is probably trying for a romantic ambience, or "atmosphere." ambivalent 1、 Holding opposite feelings and attitudes at the same time toward someone or something.
2、 Continually wavering between opposites or alternative courses of action.
🌱He was ambivalent about the trip: he badly wanted to travel but hated to miss the summer activities at home. 🌳Ambivalent is a fairly new word, less than a hundred years old, and, not surprisingly, it was first used by psychologists. Since being ambivalent means simply having mixed feelings about some question or issue, some of us spend most of our lives in a state of ambivalence. We might feel ambivalence about accepting a high-paying job that requires us to work long hours, about lending money to someone we like but don't know well—or about ordering a Tutti-Frutti Chocolate Banana Sundae El Supremo after we've been starving on a strict diet for weeks. ambit The range or limit covered by something （such as a law）.
🌱The treatment of farm animals generally falls outside the ambit of animal-cruelty laws in the U.S. 🌳Ambit is a rather formal term, often used by lawyers, as in, "With this new legislation, tobacco now falls within the ambit of FDA regulation." It almost always refers to something abstract rather than an actual physical range. So, for example, an immigrant might live completely within the ambit of her immigrant community until she started college, where she might find herself in a much broader social ambit. Most of the Latin American colonies were established by Spain, but in the 19th century, as the U.S. became stronger and Spain became weaker, they began to enter the ambit of U.S. power.
AMBI means "on both sides" or "around"; ambi- comes from Latin. Most of us are either right-handed or left-handed, but ambidextrous people can use their right and left hand equally well.🌸