- When you are unwilling to make a decision and almost intentionally go back and forth between two choices, you are equivocating. When politicians equivocate, they are often afraid of upsetting, and thus alienating, voters with their decisions.
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- vi. 说模棱两可的话；支吾， 躲闪；推诿；含糊其词
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1. Arafat immediately began to equivocate, asking for clarifications.
阿拉法特立即开始含糊其词，要求对条款加以解释。
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2. Sometimes an arguer will deliberately, sneakily equivocate, often on words like "freedom," "justice," "rights," and so forth; other times, the equivocation is a mistake or misunderstanding.
有时候论者会故意的、偷偷转换概念，特别是在象“自由”（freedom）、“正义”（justice）、权利（rights）这样一些词汇上；有的时候论者是失误或者出于错误的理解。
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3. As in any war, our goal was --as it should be--to win. The stakes were too high to equivocate.
像在任何一场战争中一样，我们的目标——理所当然的目标——是胜利。这是一个不可动摇的目标。
- equivocate (v.) early 15c., equivocaten, from Medieval Latin equivocatus, past participle of equivocare "to call by the same name, be called by the same name, have the same sound," from Late Latin aequivocus "of identical sound" (see equivocation). Related: Equivocated; equivocating.
equivo·cate / ɪˈkwɪvəkeɪt ; NAmE ɪˈkwɪvəkeɪt / verb [intransitive , transitive ] (+ speech) ( formal) to talk about sth in a way that is deliberately not clear in order to avoid or hide the truth （故意）含糊其词，支吾，搪塞 equivocate equivocates equivocated equivocating equivo·cate / ɪˈkwɪvəkeɪt ; NAmE ɪˈkwɪvəkeɪt /
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