[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]含糊不清的；不明确的；模棱两可的 If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
This agreement is very ambiguous and open to various interpretations...
这份协议非常含糊，可以有多种解释。
The Foreign Secretary's remarks clarify an ambiguous statement issued earlier this week.
外交大臣的话对本周较早时候发表的一份模棱两可的声明作出了澄清。
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Zaire's national conference on democracy ended ambiguously.
扎伊尔关于民主的全国大会结束了，但未有结果。
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]暧昧不清的；不协调的；捉摸不定的 If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it contains several different ideas or attitudes that do not fit well together.
Students have ambiguous feelings about their role in the world.
学生们对于自己在这个世界上的角色认识模糊不清。
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am·bigu·ousAWL/æmˈbɪɡjuəs; NAmEæmˈbɪɡjuəs/adjective1that can be understood in more than one way; having different meanings 模棱两可的；含混不清的◆an ambiguous word/term/statement模棱两可的词╱用语╱说法◆Her account was deliberately ambiguous.她的陈述故意含混不清。2not clearly stated or defined 不明确的◆His role has always been ambiguous.他的角色一直不明确。OPP
something that is ambiguous is unclear, confusing, or not certain, especially because it can be understood in more than one wayOPP unambiguous: The language in the Minister’s statement is highly ambiguous. His role in the affair is ambiguous.—ambiguously adverb: The legislation had been ambiguously worded.RegisterIn everyday English, people also use the phrase you can take something two ways instead of saying it is ambiguous: What she says is ambiguous. ➔ You can take what she says two ways.
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