- 1矛盾心情；又想又不想。心理、醫學上會說「矛盾情感」。不要跟「意思不清楚」搞混。
Ambivalence is the feeling of being pulled both ways about the same thing: you want it and you don't; you like a person and you are tired of them; you are glad you left and you miss it. It is not I have no idea what this sentence means (that is ambiguity). It is mixed feeling, often at the same time, not just changing your mind on Monday and Tuesday. The word started in psychiatry: the Swiss doctor Eugen Bleuler made German Ambivalenz in 1910 for strongly conflicting feelings, from Latin ambi- (“both”) and valentia (“strength”). By the 1920s writers were using it more loosely, and now it is a general educated word. Though actually, in everyday talk many people just say I'm torn or I have mixed feelings, which is the same idea in simpler clothes. We also stretch it: ambivalence toward social media can mean a whole culture cannot decide, not only one heart.
組成Borrowed from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“both”) and valentia (“strength”), from valere (“to be strong”); spelled like French-origin words ending in -ence. Equivalent to ambi- + valence.
同家族的字
- ambivalentthe adjective for a person or feeling that has this mix
- valencethe word was formed as ambi- plus valence
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
ambivalencenoun/æmˈbɪvələns/
- 1
The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
- "I dearly loved my master, son," she said. "You should have hated him," I said. "He gave me several sons," she said, "and because I loved my sons I learned to love their father though I hated him too." "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence, I said.
- The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”
- 2
A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。