The language in the Minister’s statement is highly ambiguous.
部长的声明措辞很含糊。
His role in the affair is ambiguous.
他在这起事件中的角色并不明确。
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The legislation had been ambiguously worded.
这条法律措辞含混。
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In everyday English, people also use the phrase you can take something two ways instead of saying it is ambiguous: 在日常英语中,人们也会用短语you can take sth two ways来代替ambiguous
What she says is ambiguous. → You can take what she says two ways. 她的话模棱两可。
Examples from the Corpus
ambiguous• Like a trueoracle, Hailey's pronouncements were both authoritative and ambiguous.• Where Tudor is economical, organic and disciplined, Stevenson is fussy, distracted and ambiguous.• McClane's position in the company is ambiguous.• The last part of her letter was deliberately ambiguous.• He liked to keep the story of his life ambiguous.• In the first place, most of its keyconcepts are essentially ambiguous.• The results of the experiments were ambiguous and they will have to be done again.• Unfortunately the instructions were ambiguous and we didn't know which part of the program to run.• Le Touquet's identitytoday is a little ambiguous but it still has a nice feel about it.• She left a very ambiguousmessage on the answerphone last night.• The Labour Party remained in an ambiguous position.• an ambiguous question• Mitterrand had ambiguousrelations with money, the power of which he regularly lambasted.• The document's ambiguouswording makes it very difficult to follow.
Originambiguous
(1500-1600)Latinambiguus, from ambigere“to wander around”, from ambi- (AMBI-) + agere“to drive”