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Ambiguously means in an ambiguous way: you speak, write, or act so that people can take it in more than one way. She answered ambiguously means the answer itself sat on both sides, not that she felt two feelings (that would be she felt ambivalent). It is the adverb of ambiguous, so it usually tells us how something is said or done. Fairly formal. In casual speech people more often say in a vague way or without making it clear, though those are a little looser.
模稜兩可地;含糊地。
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ambiguouslyadv/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs.li/
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In an ambiguous manner.
- "The Stranger" was a dark, comely, youthful man's head, portentously looking out of a dark, shaded ground, and ambiguously smiling.
- The bisexual name, such as Marion and Carol (and Evelyn and Vivian in England), is frequently a source of annoyance and embarrassment to the letter writer, who, if he does not know his ambiguously named correspondent personally […]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。