英単語equivocationの意味・使い方・発音
equivocation
[ɪ'kwɪvə'keʃən]
英語の語源
- equivocation (n.)
- late 14c., "fallacy of using a word in different senses at different stages of the reasoning" (a loan-translation of Greek homonymia, literally "having the same name"), from Old French equivocation, from Late Latin aequivocationem (nominative aequivocatio), noun of action from aequivocus "of identical sound, of equal voice, of equal significance, ambiguous, of like sound," past participle of aequivocare, from aequus "equal" (see equal (adj.)) + vocare "to call" (see voice (n.)).
例文
- 1. Why doesn 't the President say so without equivocation ?
- なぜ大統領は率直に言わないのか。
- 2.These actions must be condemned without equivocation .
- これらの行為をあいまいに非難しなければならない。/
- 3.With caution,and with some equivocation ,Bohr took a further step.
- ボーアは慎重に、そして少し曖昧に、より深いステップを取った。
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- 4. Then she with a pretty equivocation went on: " Julia is about my height. 「
- そして彼女は巧みな相関で「ジュリアは私と同じくらい差がない」
- 5.I do not suspect him of equivocation ,still less of lying.
- 彼が言葉を濁しているとは思わない、ましてや彼が嘘をついていると疑うのは言うまでもない。
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