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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.
Ambivalence Ambivalence is the feeling of being pulled both ways about the same thing是對同一件事被拉往兩個方向的感覺： you want it and you don't你想要又不想要； you like a person and you are tired of them你喜歡一個人卻也對他感到厭倦； you are glad you left and you miss it你慶幸自己離開了卻又想念它。It is not它不是 I have no idea what this sentence means「我完全不懂這句話的意思」 (that is ambiguity)（那是ambiguity）。It is mixed feeling它是混雜的感覺， often at the same time通常是同時發生的， not just changing your mind on Monday and Tuesday不只是星期一想這樣、星期二又改變主意。
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.
The word started in psychiatry這個字源自精神醫學： the Swiss doctor Eugen Bleuler made German Ambivalenz in 1910瑞士醫生Eugen Bleuler在1910年創造了德文Ambivalenz for strongly conflicting feelings用來指強烈衝突的感受， from Latin ambi- ("both") and valentia ("strength")由拉丁文ambi-（「兩者」）和valentia（「力量」）組成。By the 1920s到了1920年代， writers were using it more loosely作家開始比較鬆散地使用這個字， and now it is a general educated word現在它已經是一般受過教育的人都會用的字。
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.
Though actually不過， in everyday talk在日常說話裡 many people just say很多人就直接說 I'm torn or I have mixed feelingsI'm torn或I have mixed feelings， which is the same idea in simpler clothes其實是同一個概念換了比較簡單的說法。We also stretch it我們也會延伸使用： ambivalence toward social mediaambivalence toward social media can mean a whole culture cannot decide可以指整個文化都拿不定主意， not only one heart不只是一個人的心情。
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，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。
ambivalencenoun/æmˈbɪvələns/
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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.”
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A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.
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。