ambivalence
ambivalence 英 [æm'bɪv(ə)l(ə)ns;æm'bɪvəl(ə)ns;æm'bɪvələns] 美 [æm'bɪvələns]
n. [心理] 矛盾情绪；正反感情并存
名词复数:ambivalences
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- n. [心理] 矛盾情绪；正反感情并存
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1. This is a completely different attitude toward colonization, and it can be understood as a sort of historical ambivalence.
这是对殖民主义的一种完全不同的态度，可以把它理解为历史的矛盾心理。
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2. When people ask God to give them a sign, they’re often at a standstill, a fork in the road, paralyzed in a critical moment of existential ambivalence.
当人们请求上帝给与指引的时候，他们通常处于一个停顿状态，一个分岔路口，被困在存在矛盾心理的一个关键时刻。
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3. I raise this point, I begin with this point because in many countries there is a deep ambivalence about military action today, no matter what the cause.
我说起这一点，我以这一点开头，因为今天在许多国家，对军事行动，不管出于什么理由，都存在一种深深的矛盾心理。
- ambivalence (n.) "simultaneous conflicting feelings," 1924 (1912 as ambivalency), from German Ambivalenz, coined 1910 by Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler on model of German Equivalenz "equivalence," etc., from Latin ambi- "both, on both sides" (see ambi-) + valentia "strength," abstract noun from present participle of valere "be strong" (from PIE root *wal- "to be strong"). A psychological term that by 1929 had taken on a broader literary and general sense.
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