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Ambiguous
  Explanation: Ambiguity: the ambiguous, unclear; the two can be: You can say, you can do. Clear attitude that does not mean, or no clear idea.
  Usage: Partial official; as predicate, object, attribute; containing derogatory
  Source: "Old Tang Chuan Su-taste": "doing things do not want to understand decisions, if wrong, will be contingent Yi blame, but can be ambiguous in order to carry on holding both ends."
  Examples: He was afraid if things change, he will have unexpected calamity, so kneeling on the ground, then answered a ~. (Yao Xueyin "Rereading," Volume II of Chapter)
mó léng liǎng kě
  May be two explanations; neither positive nor negative
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No. 3
  Ambiguous and vague bureaucratic hodgepodge of words
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  Described as noncommittal on the matter of the two sides, right and wrong. "Ming Shi Yushan Biography": "strong similarities and differences between white and ambiguous, is built like a large evil loyal, big fraud like the letter." Ling, "The Sun Shines on" 35: "He felt that the theory and policy in the vast literary grace under learning, we can not uphold a certain idea, we have to take some ambiguous, vague statement of the. "Wei Wei" Eastern "Part Chapter VII:" the newly appointed branch secretary ... ... offends, in branch When disputes occur, often ambiguous and vacillating. "also as" ambiguous ends. " "Anti-British struggle of the people of historical eastern Guangdong Sanyuanli Chronicle": "Chi Kung Pao ambiguous ends and fearful of the extreme."
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典故
  唐朝前期著名诗人苏味道,仕途顺利,官运亨通,仅做宰相前后长达数年之久。但他在位并没做出什么突出成绩来。他老于世故,处事圆滑,他常对人说:“处事不欲决断明白,若有错误,必贻咎谴,但摸稜(léng)(同棱)以持两端可矣。”意思是:处理事情,不要决断得太清楚,太明白,要是这样处理错了,必会遭到追究和指责。只要模棱两可,哪边都抓不着(小辫子)就行了。当时,人们根据他这种为人处世的特点,给他取了一个绰号,叫“苏摸稜”。
  “模棱两可”说明人在处理问题时,含糊其辞,不明确表态,不置可否。
English Expression
  1. n.:  ambiguity,  amphibology,  cut both ways,  betwixt and between,  yea and nay,  double-talk,  Ambiguous
Thesaurus
as deep as a well, Once in a while, never blot a line in writing, do not speak in detail, shilly-shally, Words not in detail, Neither this nor, mean
Antonym
not to be taken as a precedent, get off one’ s horse to look at the flowers — go deep into the realities of life and make thorough investigations, do not mind to take all the trouble, describe (dwell) at great length, with bitter incisiveness, (in calligraphy) So forceful are the strokes that the force seems to penetrate the paper, be very suitable and accurate, the latecomers surpass the old-timers, very steady, Large, such as rafters, hit the spot, apt, touch a stone and turn it into gold, turn a crude essay into a literary gem, add the touch that brings a work of art to life, Strength Supremely, subtle Buyi, Detailed Is dedicated, no omission, not to cast away anything, big or small; save everything,big or small, Small large completely, E-is enough., Iron picture Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus iron picture, trenchant, Bianpijinli
Related Phrases
formal logicconclusion
Containing Phrases
ambiguousunequivocalambiguity
equivocatenewspeakan ambiguous answer
obliquitynewspeakjesuitism
amphibologyinstance of thisan ambiguous title
the Delphic oraclesignificance ambiguousdisambiguation