- 1心情矛盾的；愛恨交織的（口語常說「很矛盾」；不是兩句話邏輯打架，而是心裡同時想要又不想要）
If you are ambivalent, you feel two ways about the same thing at the same time, and you cannot settle on one. You may want a job and dread it. You may love a person and feel tired of them. This is not the same as not caring. You do care — your feelings just pull you in opposite directions. People use it about feelings, people, and hard choices. It sounds a little formal; in everyday talk someone will often say they have mixed feelings, or they are not sure. Though actually, mixed feelings is very close to what most speakers mean. Do not mix it with ambiguous, which is about something that is unclear, not about a heart that cannot choose.
組成ambi- (Latin: in two ways) + -valent (from Latin valeō, be strong). English built the adjective backwards from the noun ambivalence, which came from German Ambivalenz.
同家族的字
- ambivalencethe noun this adjective was built from
- ambivalentlythe adverb: in an ambivalent way
- ambivertshares Latin ambi- (two ways); a person pulled both inward and outward
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。
ambivalentadj/æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/
- 1
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
- In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.
- 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
Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
- His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.
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。