ambiguity

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am·bi·gu·i·ty /ˌæmbɪˈɡjuːəti/ AWL noun (plural ambiguities) [countableC, uncountableU]

the state of being unclear, confusing, or not certain, or things that produce this effect 模棱两可；不明确（的事物）

ambiguity in

There was an element of ambiguity in the president’s reply.

总统的回答有点模棱两可。

legal ambiguities

法律上含混不清的地方

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ambiguity• Bottom-up parsers are very susceptible to problems arising from lexical ambiguity.• Thus, a trace of ambiguity in the data can lower success rate.• Grinding the coffee beans he pondered life's smaller ambiguities.• The design of policy has to take into account the ambiguity of the welfare analysis outlined in the previous section.• But they recognised the ambiguities, and based their paper on wider evidence, and were prompted by concern for conservation.• This description owes its quaint sound partly to its antiquity, and partly to ambiguity.

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