- ambivalent (about/towards somebody/something)
having or showing both positive and negative feelings about somebody/something 对某件事情既有正面的感觉,又有负面的感觉。 She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job. 她似乎对她的新工作喜忧参半。 He has an ambivalent attitude towards her. 他对她怀着矛盾的心情。
Extra ExamplesThe party's position on nuclear weapons is deeply ambivalent. 该党在核武器上的立场极为矛盾。 She is deeply ambivalent about her feelings for him. 她对他的感情十分矛盾。 In his latest film, he plays a sexually ambivalent bartender. 他在最新的电影中扮演一位性取向不明确的酒吧服务员。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
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Word Originearly 20th cent.: from ambivalence (from German Ambivalenz), on the pattern of equivalent.