ambivalent
/ˌæmbɪˈveɪlənt/adjective
- having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone(对事或人)心态(或想法)矛盾的:
some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her
有些人爱她, 有些人恨她, 几乎没人对她持矛盾态度
an ambivalent attitude to terrorism.
对恐怖主义的矛盾态度。
派生词
ambivalence
nounambivalently
adverb词源
early 20th cent.: from ambivalence (from German Ambivalenz), on the pattern of equivalent.