英语释义

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

片语

to equivocate拐弯抹角

equivocate e模棱两可地说

prevaricate equivocate用含混的话搪塞

equivocate falter haw prevarication支吾

quibble诡辩；挑剔；说模棱两可的话

equivocate quibble说模棱两可的话

Do not equivocate about不怨天尤人

waffle equivocate falter含糊其词或躲躲闪闪地说话

英汉例句

• such divisions may partly be causing iran’s government to equivocate in the face of the west’s latest proposals for solving the dispute over iran’s nuclear plans.

  部分意义上，这种分歧可能会使得伊朗政府针对西方各国最近提出的解决伊朗核计划提议上含糊其辞。

• don「t equivocate with me i want a straight answer to a straight question!

  别跟我绕弯子--我问的问题直截了当，回答也要直截了当！

• to talk or act insincerely or misleadingly; equivocate .

  支吾，搪塞不说真话，含糊其词。

• but if we were speaking french or german, i wouldn」t have the privilege to equivocate in this way, because i would be obliged by the grammar of language to choose between voisin or voisine;

  但是如果我们之间是用法语或德语交流，我可能没有这样的权利以这种方式推诿，因为我可能受到这两种语言中语法的制约，在表达「邻居」或「睦邻」这一概念的法语voison或voisiner以及德语nachbar或nachbarin之间作选择；

• such divisions may partly be causing iran「s government to equivocate in the face of the west」s latest proposals for solving the dispute over iran「s nuclear plans.

  这样的分歧可能部分造成了伊朗政府在应对西方最新解决核计划争端的提议时模棱两可。

• they waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.

  前者动摇，后者坚定，前者暧昧，后者明朗。

• you can tell when they」re stressed out, they'll equivocate and vacillate.

  当他们压力过大时，你是可以辨别出来的，因为他们会支支吾吾、犹豫不决。