equivocation

noun

1. 含糊其辞；支吾；搪塞
   a way of behaving or speaking that is not clear or definite and is intended to avoid or hide the truth

1. VERB 含糊其词;说模棱两可的话
   When someone equivocates, they deliberately use vague language in order to deceive people or to avoid speaking the truth.
   1. He is equivocating a lot about what is going to happen if and when there are elections...
      他支支吾吾地说着很多万一进行选举会发生的状况。
   2. He had asked her once again about her finances. And again she had equivocated.
      他又一次询问她的财务状况，她再次含糊其词。

1. Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
   含糊其词是谎言的近亲。
2. On my first day in office, I prohibited without exception or equivocation the use of torture by the United States of America.
   在我就任总统的第一天，我宣布美国毫无例外、坚定不移地禁止酷刑。
3. You would wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
   你应该用含糊的语言来含糊他和你自己。
4. At the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, there is no equivocation but there is caution, said Stephen Heintz, its president.
   洛克菲勒兄弟基金会总裁斯蒂芬·海因兹（StephenHeintz）说，该基金会不是在含糊其辞，只是较为谨慎。
5. Huang chose to sign with ABC in deference to the residual power of network television to alter mass perceptions about race, and he had hoped to portray the Asian-immigrant experience without equivocation or compromise.
   黄选择跟ABC合作，是觉得电视网还有一定的残余影响力，可以改变公众对种族的看法。他希望能够毫不含糊、毫无妥协地描绘亚洲移民的生活经历。
6. We gather because the time for equivocation is over.
   我们在此开会是因为不能再态度模棱两可了。
7. But Congressional equivocation also reflects Congressional ambivalence.
   但是国会的模棱两可也反映了国会的矛盾心理。
8. I love that equivocation over Hong Kong.
   我喜欢她对香港人的含糊其辞。
9. With this technique it is possible to adopt other important components of conventional information theory such as equivocation and redundancy.
   用这种方法就有可能采用常规信息论的其它重要成分，如模棱两可信息和多余信息。
10. Otherwise you get an equivocation. Wouldn't you?
    否则你就是在说同样的话，不是吗？
11. A clear distinction must be drawn between right and wrong, for inner-Party controversies over principle are a reflection inside the Party of the class struggle in society, and no equivocation is to be tolerated.
    是非一定要搞清楚，因为党内的原则争论，是社会上阶级斗争在党内的反映，是不允许含糊的。
12. Actually not clear what equivocation it's on is it?
    实际上并不清楚模糊在哪？
13. He answered openly and honestly without hesitation or equivocation.
    他回答问题，坦荡，真诚，没有丝毫犹豫和含糊。
14. He thought how ten minutes ago yes, only ten minutes there had still been equivocation in his heart as he wondered whether the news from the front would be of victory or defeat.
    他想起在十分钟之前是的，不过十分钟他在思量前线的消息、究竟是胜是负时，他心中还有疑惑。
15. Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, and eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.
    一些人学会了玩狡猾借口的把戏，他们用含糊不清代替真相，以持保留态度来竭力自圆其说，在好人看来这实在讨厌。
16. An equivocation is by the way an argument in which you use the same word which has two different meanings.
    说同样的话是一个论点，你们用同样的词有两个不同的意思。
17. This equivocation has carried through to his trade policy appointments.
    他的这种含糊态度延续到了他对一众贸易政策官员的任命上。
18. Natural language has puns and equivocation so that it is impossible to find the relation between world and picture unless to create an ideal language.
    自然语言具有歧异性和模糊性，因此必须构造一种理想语言才能建立对世界的图像关系。
19. He that will live in this world must be endowed with the three rare qualities of dissimulation, equivocation, and mental reservation.
    举凡有意在这世上谋求生存者，必须具备三种难得的天资：掩饰感情、含糊其词、保留己见。
20. And that's a result of equivocation or we are equivocating on the word bank.
    这是说同样话的结果，或者我们说bank这个词的不同意思。
21. The result of this equivocation is to contrast the good of others with the good of the particular being that I am.
    这种模棱两可的结果，是将别人的善，跟作为「我」的特别的生命实存作对比。
22. But they can affirm the principles of Mr Geithner's proposals without equivocation.
    但他们可以明确确认盖特纳提议的原则。
23. The proposed method can achieve fast convergence as well as high accuracy of estimation. It also solves the equivocation and slow convergence problems existing under the extreme condition that the crossing-zero is the initial sample of Gardner algorithm.
    该方法具有快速、高精度的特点，尤其是较好地解决了初始点为过零点的极端情况下，Gardner算法收敛方向不确定、收敛时间较长的问题。
24. Factors that result in geometric aberration are analyzed and formula for measuring the displacement equivocation is deepened through the validation of experiments. 4.
    对遥感影像产生几何畸变的因素进行了分析，深化了位移疑义度的概念和度量公式，并通过实验加以验证。
25. Secondly, the nodes with Byzantine faults can cheat non-faulty nodes by equivocation which makes upper layer applications or administrators unable to detect the presence of the Byzantine faults easily.
    其次，拜占庭故障可以通过含糊行为等手段欺骗正确节点，上层应用或者管理员甚至不容易觉察到拜占庭故障的存在，故障隐蔽性对故障检测提出了挑战。
26. The multiple-level relay-eavesdropper channel is proposed, the equivocation rate and the achievable secrecy rate are derived in discrete memoryless channel, and the decoding strategy is improved.
    在中继窃听信道的基础上，提出了有多级中继的窃听信道的模型，推导了离散无记忆信道下的疑义速率范围及可达安全速率的表达式。
27. The source and characteristics of noise in remote sensing imagery are analyzed, with the concept of noise equivocation being further expatiated. Experiments are carried out to validate the formulas for calculating three kinds of noises which affect imagery information content.
    分析了遥感影像中噪声的来源和特性，对噪声疑义度的概念进行了更深刻的阐述，提出并用试验验证了影响影像信息量统计的三类噪声计算方法。

noun

1. falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language

   Synonym:    tergiversation

2. intentionally vague or ambiguous

   Synonym:    prevaricationevasiveness

3. a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

   Synonym:    evasion