ambivalence

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When people ask God to give them a sign, they’re often at a standstill, a fork in the road, paralyzed in a critical moment of existential ambivalence.
当人们请求上帝给与指引的时候，他们通常处于一个停顿状态，一个分岔路口，被困在存在矛盾心理的一个关键时刻。
I raise this point, I begin with this point because in many countries there is a deep ambivalence about military action today, no matter what the cause.
我说起这一点，我以这一点开头，因为今天在许多国家，对军事行动，不管出于什么理由，都存在一种深深的矛盾心理。
In this peculiar failing, and in the bashfulness with which a British person receives praise, I invite you to witness our national ambivalence to success.
在这一特殊的弱点上，在英国人受到赞扬时的羞涩中，您可以看到我们整个民族对成功的矛盾态度。

"Well,what we found is a lot of ambivalence. A bare majority of Americans, about 52 percent, think that the U.S.military effort there is a good idea and should be there.
The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.
都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。
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So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.
当人们读到这一段的时候，总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。
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The changing state landscape also reflects a lot of ambivalence by state officials themselves.
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the simultaneous existence of two opposed and conflicting attitudes, emotions, etc

矛盾性
It's necessary to know the whole life of the poet for the purpose of understandingthe ambivalence of her poetry.
要想理解罗塞蒂诗歌的矛盾性，就要先了解诗人的一生。
矛盾心理
The first part discusses the main ambivalence Hawthorne shown in the text. Under the careful analysis, Hawthorne reflects the most contradictions when he described the female characters.
论文第一章论述霍桑在《红字》中表现出的矛盾心理。
矛盾心态
Then this thesis elaborates on the ethical conflicts hidden in the different layers of ambivalence: the conflicts between pleasure and conscience, justice and self-sacrifice.
这四层矛盾心态折射出小说中的两大伦理冲突:享乐与良知的冲突,正义与自我牺牲的冲突。
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