ambivalent

adj.

1. （忧喜参半、好坏参半等）矛盾情绪的
   having or showing both good and bad feelings about sb/sth
   1. She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job.
      她似乎对新工作忧喜参半。
   2. He has an ambivalent attitude towards her.
      他对她怀着矛盾的心情。

1. ADJ-GRADED 摇摆不定的；犹豫不决的
   If you say that someone is ambivalent about something, they seem to be uncertain whether they really want it, or whether they really approve of it.
   1. She remained ambivalent about her marriage...
      她对于自己的婚事仍然拿不定主意。
   2. He maintained an ambivalent attitude to the Church throughout his long life.
      在他漫长的一生中，他对基督教信仰始终是一种摇摆不定的态度。

1. She remained ambivalent about her marriage
   她对于自己的婚事仍然拿不定主意。
2. You usually start collecting money from the most committed investors and work your way out toward the ambivalent ones, whose interest increases as the round fills up.
   你通常从筹集那些最坚定的投资者开始，来渐渐向那些摇摆不定的人迈进，他们的兴趣会随着这轮投资的充实而逐渐增加。
3. Some of the differences are relatively trivial parentheses instead of angle brackets, for example while others are ambivalent.
   一些差异相对来说很小，比如圆括号代替了尖括号；而另一些则是针锋相对的。
4. The hard truth is that Chinese abroad often have ambivalent attitudes towards their homeland.
   一个残酷的事实是，远在国外的中国人对于他们的祖国常常怀有矛盾的心情。
5. Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence.
   美国人对情报工作有种爱恨交织态度。
6. But I'm still deeply ambivalent about mood-altering medications.
   然而我对改变情绪的药物仍深感矛盾。
7. He feels very ambivalent about leaving his wife.
   对离开他妻子这件事他很矛盾。
8. Most of us have an ambivalent attitude towards technology.
   我们当中大部分人对技术持一种矛盾的态度。
9. I must say I feel pretty ambivalent about whether or not we go to France this year.
   我必须说我对今年是否去法国感到相当矛盾。
10. My predecessor felt you had an ambivalent relationship with him.
    我的前任感到你和他有一种矛盾的关系。
11. Conversely, for all Rio's economic dependence on China, it too is ambivalent.
    相反，尽管力拓在经济上依赖中国，但它也对中国存在矛盾心情。
12. Feminists, meanwhile, have an ambivalent attitude towards what used to be called the capitalist patriarchy.
    同时，女权主义者也对过去被称为资本主义父权制的体系持有矛盾态度。
13. Even the protagonists seemed ambivalent.
    即使是会议的主角们，心态也是矛盾的。
14. In person, his chatter is more ambivalent, thoughtful, punctured with smiles and a sense of humour.
    从外在看来，他的谈话更加矛盾复杂和具思想性，点刺以微笑和幽默感。
15. She had been ambivalent about their Jewish friends and his relatives, though outwardly she seemed not a prejudiced person.
    她对他们的犹太朋友和他的亲戚有一种矛盾的心情，尽管她在外表上并不是个怀有偏见的人。
16. She felt ambivalent about his proposal; an ambivalent position on rent control.
    她对他的建议感觉很矛盾；对出租管制的矛盾立场。
17. Some in the field are ambivalent about such research.
    从事该领域研究工作的一些人对这样的研究心情矛盾。
18. The phrase "taking exercise" has an ambivalent ring for me.
    “锻炼”这个词会让我产生一种矛盾的感觉。
19. Local people always show their complex and ambivalent feelings by creating and telling legends of historical features and modifying their content to express their own feelings and evaluations to them.
    地方民众通过创作和讲述历史人物传说，及不断修改其内容来表述自己对历史人物的感情和评价，显示出其复杂感情和矛盾心理。
20. Leigh's response was ambivalent.
    莉的反应很矛盾。
21. Athletes and fans alike seem to have an ambivalent attitude to drugs.
    运动员和其粉丝一样对兴奋剂的态度很是矛盾。
22. To be honest, it was an ambivalent feeling.
    老实说，这是一种矛盾的心情。
23. The fact that the Chinese seem ambivalent about assuming the responsibilities of global leadership could also help.
    中国似乎对承担全球领先地位带来的责任颇为矛盾，这一事实可能也有所帮助。
24. Huxley himself was ambivalent about soma pills or their equivalent.
    赫胥黎自己就对体细胞类的药片或其替代品没有把握。
25. He has an ambivalent attitude towards her.
    他对她怀着矛盾的心情。
26. As the title suggests, he is ambivalent about this place.
    正如书名所暗示的，对这块土地他感到矛盾纠结。
27. The Chinese intelligentsia misreads, misplaces and misuses the western modernity. Third, its modernity is ambivalent.
    其次是误读的现代性资源，即中国现代知识界对西方现代性的误读、误植与误用。
28. Bachelet herself seems ambivalent about this time.
    对于这段时间，巴切莱特本人显得有些矛盾。
29. The centre is therefore polar and ambivalent, representing a tension of opposites from which energy flows.
    因此，中心也是极点和矛盾点，对立的能量流动而相互拉扯形成紧张的状态。
30. I thought we got rid of that pathologically ambivalent persist three years ago.
    我本来以为三年前，我们已经摆脱那个阴晴不定的病态自恋狂了。

adj

1. uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
   1. was ambivalent about having children