uncertain/ambiguous/arguable/equivocal/indefinite/vague.导航词义：不确定的

1. uncertain:adj. 不确定的；难预料的.指人对某事没有把握的，此时通常作表语；也指某事不明确的。

I am uncertain when he will come.

我不清楚他什么时候来。

He was uncertain about whether to buy the jacket.

他拿不定主意要不要买那件夹克。

It is uncertain whether she will win first place.

她是否会取得第一名还不太清楚。

His uncertain temper made him have few friends.

他的脾气令人捉摸不透，因而没什么朋友。

2. ambiguous:adj. 模棱两可的，不明确的.尤指可以理解为两种或更多意思，因而含糊不清、不明确的。

The minister's answer was highly ambiguous.

该部长的回答十分模棱两可。

Her role in the incident was ambiguous.

她在那次事件中的角色并不明确。

3. arguable:adj. 无把握的，有疑问的.指不确定某事是否为真实的或准确的。

Whether or not he can be elected (as) mayor is arguable.

他是否能被选为市长有待商榷。

It is arguable whether the meeting should have been delayed.

这个会议原本是否应该推迟还是个问题。

4. equivocal:adj. 模棱两可的，含糊的.指所给的信息、意见、答复等故意含糊其词的。

He was rather equivocal about his working experiences.

他谈到他的工作经历时有点含糊其词。

The answers given by the minister were always equivocal.

那位部长的回答总是模棱两可。

5. indefinite:adj. 模糊不清的，不明确的.指不确定的、不清楚的或没有明确定义或限定的。

an indefinite number of people

不确定的人数

These terminologies are so indefinite that they are confusing.

这些专门用语很不明确，令人费解。

6. vague:adj. 含糊的，不清楚的，不明确的.指提供的信息不够详细或表达的意思不够明确的，也指记忆等不清晰的。

The mayor gave only a vague outline of his employment plan.

市长只是含糊地大致说了一下他的劳动力就业计划。

The two students were vague about why they had been late.

对于为什么迟到，这两名学生含糊其词。

He had a vague recollection that he had put the key in the drawer.

他隐约记得自己把钥匙放在抽屉里了。

全部

1·His role has always been ambiguous.

他的角色一直不明确。《牛津词典》

2·The wording was deliberately ambiguous.

这里的措辞故意模棱两可。《牛津词典》

3·This agreement is very ambiguous and open to various interpretations.

这个协议非常模棱两可，可以有多种解释。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·His answer was ambiguous.

他的答复是含糊的。《新英汉大辞典》

5·The author's attitude to his city life is ambiguous.

作者对都市生活的态度是含糊不清的。

6·In retrospect, it is possible to see the uneasy and ambiguous nature of this relationship.

回顾过去，我们可能会看到这种关系不安和模糊的本质。

7·As with error correction, however, there's a limit beyond which messages become too ambiguous.

然而和纠错一样，这里有一个限制，超过后消息就会变得太模糊。

8·But in the everyday practice of science, discovery frequently follows an ambiguous and complicated route.

但在每天的科学实践中，发现往往遵循一条模糊和复杂的路径。

9·Since lake levels are controlled by rates of evaporation as well as by precipitation, the interpretation of such levels is ambiguous.

由于湖泊水位是由蒸发率和降水量控制的，对这种水位的解释是模糊不清的。

10·Robert Pepperell, an artist based at Cardiff University, creates ambiguous works that are neither entirely abstract nor clearly representational.

卡迪夫大学艺术家罗伯特·佩珀尔创作的作品模棱两可，既不完全抽象，也不具有明显的代表性。

暧昧的

1·You will lose your special ambiguous friendship with her, and going to work with a broken heart may make the office a grim place for a while.

你会失去与她之间那种特殊而暧昧的友情，并带着一颗破碎的心去工作，有一段时间，办公室将成为你的伤心地。

2·Mr Vonnegut's was one of the defining voices of post-war America. Yet it was also ambiguous.

冯内古特的论调可以视作战后美国大众心声的代表之一，但即便如此，他的声音中仍有太多的暧昧不明。

3·Don't love love, never go bad. Therefore, we flirt, we ambiguous, but never fall in love.

不爱的爱情，永远不会变坏。所以，我们调情，我们暧昧，却永远不要相爱。

4·He did not say his love, but over the space ambiguous message on whether he has sold the single.

他没有说过他的爱情，但满空间的暧昧留言就已经出卖了他是否单身。

5·When people are free of which, along with the change ofmaterial transparency, lighting levels, also launched a taste of transparent extension or vague, ambiguous visual game.

当人们游离其中，随着材质透明度的变化，灯光照明层次变化，也展开了一段领略通透延展或模糊，暧昧的视觉游戏。

模棱两可的

1·The wording was deliberately ambiguous.

这里的措辞故意模棱两可。《牛津词典》

2·This agreement is very ambiguous and open to various interpretations.

这个协议非常模棱两可，可以有多种解释。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Robert Pepperell, an artist based at Cardiff University, creates ambiguous works that are neither entirely abstract nor clearly representational.

卡迪夫大学艺术家罗伯特·佩珀尔创作的作品模棱两可，既不完全抽象，也不具有明显的代表性。

4·Because or is an ambiguous word in English it can mean either or, it can mean not both.

因为或者在英语中是一个模棱两可的词，意思可能是或者，也有可能不是全部。

5·And so on. The story purposely portrayed the protagonist in an ambiguous way.

这个故事有意识的用这样一种模棱两可的方式对主人公进行描绘。

不明确的

1·His role has always been ambiguous.

他的角色一直不明确。《牛津词典》

2·In both cases, the outcome of the transaction is ambiguous until the transaction is rolled back, but the duration of the ambiguity is milliseconds in one case and possibly many minutes in the other.

在两种情况下，事务的结果在回滚事务之前都是不明确的，但是这种不明确性的持续时间在一种情况下为数毫秒，在另一种情况下可能长达数分钟。

3·Another issue is that natural language is often very ambiguous.

另一个问题是自然语言常常非常不明确。

4·Over time, some new best practices for client applications have emerged to deal with the ambiguous outcomes of broken connections.

随着时间的推移，出现了某些用于客户端应用程序的新最佳实践，以处理断开连接的不明确结果。

5·The image of authority he conveys is pointedly ambiguous.

他所表达的权威的视觉表达是不明确的。

歧义的

1·Language can be ambiguous.

语言很容易有歧义。

2·The analysis on ambiguous structure can help a lot to understand English exactly.

对歧义结构的分析有助于准确理解英文。

3·The ambiguous phenomena in language have been widely taken into consideration.

语言歧义现象已引起广泛关注。

4·He is so careful as not to say anything ambiguous.

他总是小心谨慎，从不说任何引起歧义的话。

5·Ambiguity is a special relationship between a linguistic structural form and its meaning. A structural form which conveys more than one meaning is ambiguous.

歧义是语言结构形式同其意义之间的一种特殊关系，具有一个以上意义的同一结构形式就是歧义的。

含糊的

1·His answer was ambiguous.

他的答复是含糊的。《新英汉大辞典》

2·But in truth, my grammar has a lot of problems when it encounters ambiguous phrases.

不过说实话，当遇到含糊的短语时，我的语法会有很多问题。

3·He interprets a pilot error or customer mistake as something ambiguous or vague (not intuitive) in the product.

他将“实验错误”或“客户过失”解释为产品中的含糊或模糊的东西(不是直观的)。

4·How do you determine what is a best friend? That's kind of an ambiguous term.

如何决定什么才是最好的朋友？这是一个含糊的概念？

5·But this could be ambiguous because these do not come from a controlled vocabulary.

但因为这些值不是来自于受控词汇表的，所以可能比较含糊。

模糊不清的

1·Since lake levels are controlled by rates of evaporation as well as by precipitation, the interpretation of such levels is ambiguous.

由于湖泊水位是由蒸发率和降水量控制的，对这种水位的解释是模糊不清的。

2·If it were an anecdote, we should say the performance; but in the dream we may consider the sentence as it is, declare it to be ambiguous, and add before she married.

如果这只是一个小故事，我们会认为说的是表演。 但这是个梦，因此我们只能说这句话涵义模糊不清 ，该加上一句“在她出嫁以前”，也就是说，她等待出嫁等了太长时间了。

3·Documentation can be ambiguous in the most insidious ways.

文档可能有很多模糊不清的微妙之处。

4·Egg safety is equally ambiguous. While many people like to buy cage-free eggs, those chickens may be exposed to bacteria on the grounds where they are roaming.

蛋类食品的安全一样模糊不清。多数人喜欢买散养的鸡蛋，这些鸡在到处闲荡的时候可能会染上地面上的细菌。

5·Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

潜藏着的、黑暗并模糊不清的东西让人害怕，因为你不知道那是什么。

含混

1·Mail sent to users with ambiguous names is not recalled; the recall message cannot determine which recipient was the one selected by the sender originally.

如果将邮件发送给名称含混的用户，则该邮件不能被收回；收回消息无法确定哪一个收件人是发件人最初所选定的。

2·'Thing' is a very ambiguous word.

但“物”是一个很含混的名词。

3·Parsing this syntax is equally ambiguous, and you must know the layout of an XML response ahead of time to be able to make sense of it.

语法解析同样含混，你必须先知道XML响应报文的布局，然后才能搞清楚它的含义。

4·Misunderstandings often arise when the reader misinterprets the term, especially when it is abstract, ambiguous, or controversial. It is therefore necessary to make the meaning of the term clear.

读者产生误解，往往是由于误解说明文中的某个词或术语，尤其是抽象、含混或有争议的词或术语，因此有必要明确这些词或术语的意义，即给它们下定义。

5·The color theory here is not about the coloring skill, but the ambiguous but real existence of the object in our primary experience.

这里的颜色理论不是讨论着色技巧，而是物体在我们的原初经验中的含混却真实的存在。

模棱

1·The main impediments for compiler to improve the parallelism of program, are frequent branches and ambiguous memory accessess.

编译器提高程序并行性的主要障碍是：频繁的控制转移和模棱两可的内存访问。

2·But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek, mischievous — and deliberately ambiguous — look at what might have happened.

但他们是真的吗？我们稍微的舌头在脸颊，调皮，故意模棱两可，看看会发生什么。

3·He kept making ambiguous remarks instead of straightforward yes-or-no replies.

他连续地讲些模棱两可的话，而不是作出明确的肯定或否定的回答。

4·We the business in the house get the madam nod just become! Amber ambiguous unclear tunnel.

“我们屋里的事得夫人点头才成！”琥珀模棱两可地道。

不清

1·Why are you always so ambiguous about this problem?

为什么你总是对这个问题含糊不清？

2·Why are you always so ambiguous about this problem?

为什么你总是对这个问题含糊不清。