| 釋義 |
equivocatorn. person who avoids telling the truth byusing words capable of a twofold interpretatio n,onewho speaks ambiguously說(shuō)話模棱兩可的人，說(shuō)話含糊其詞的人。
△Mac. 2. 3. 9 (8):“Faith,here’s an equivocator,that could swear in both the scales against eitherscale,who committed treason enough for God’s sake,vet could not equivocate to heaven. ” (An allusion toGarner,a Jesuit who confessed to the use of equivoca-tion at a trial of the Gunpowder plot in 1606)哼，這一定是一個(gè)說(shuō)話模棱兩可的家伙，能在正義的兩個(gè)秤盤(pán)上兩邊發(fā)誓、兩邊罵，他打著上帝的名義犯下不少的叛逆之罪，但還是沒(méi)法混進(jìn)天堂。 |