ambiguous是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 引起歧义的, 模棱两可的, 含糊不清的,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was gentle and pretty, but firm; Martin was to suppress (Holabird did not say "suppress"-- he said "leave to me for further consideration") the real statistical results, and issue the report with an ambiguous summary.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I only used the whip twice in all our seven years (not counting a third occasion of a very ambiguous character).
-- 'I perceive, Avdotya Romanovna, that you seem disposed to undertake his defence all of a sudden,' Luzhin observed, twisting his lips into an ambiguous smile, 'there's no doubt that he is an astute man, and insinuating where ladies are concerned, of which Marfa Petrovna, who has died so strangely, is a terrible instance.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But be all this as it may; let the unseen, ambiguous synod in the air, or the vindictive princes and potentates of fire, have to do or not with earthly Ahab, yet, in this present matter of his leg, he took plain practical procedures; he called the carpenter.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This ambiguous conduct led them to believe that the natives had ill-treated the castaways, and indeed they seemed to fear that Dumont d'Urville had come to avenge La Perouse and his unfortunate crew.
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