vagueness
n. 暧昧,含糊
If something written or spoken is vague, it does not explain or express things clearly.
A lot of the talk was apparently vague and general...
很多话明显是些含糊的泛泛之论。
The description was pretty vague.
描述相当模糊。
If you have a vague memory or idea of something, the memory or idea is not clear.
They have only a vague idea of the amount of water available...
他们只是大概知道可用水的总量。
Waite's memory of that first meeting was vague.
韦特对第一次见面的记忆很模糊。
If you are vague about something, you deliberately do not tell people much about it.
He was vague, however, about just what U.S. forces might actually do...
然而,他对美军实际可能采取的行动却闪烁其词。
Democratic leaders under election pressure tend to respond with vague promises of action...
民主党领导人在选举压力下往往用一些含糊其词的行动承诺来予以回应。
If you describe someone as vague, you mean that they do not seem to be thinking clearly.
She had married a charming but rather vague Englishman...
她嫁给了一个外表迷人实际却很迷糊的英国人。
His eyes were always so vague when he looked at her.
他看她的眼神总是那么暧昧。
If something such as a feeling is vague, you experience it only slightly.
He was conscious of that vague feeling of irritation again...
他再次感到有点儿恼火。
He had a vague impression of rain pounding on the packed earth.
他隐约记得雨点打在坚实地面上的情景。
A vague shape or outline is not clear and is therefore not easy to see.
He looked at her vague shape through the frosted glass...
他透过雾蒙蒙的眼镜注视着她模糊的身形。
The bus was a vague shape in the distance.
远处的公交车只是一个模糊的轮廓。
1. unclearness by virtue of being vague
To be sure, most managerial actions do not benefit from vagueness.
可以肯定, 大多数管理措施从含糊其辞中得不到好处.
Our discussion identifies some of the vagueness in organizational life.
我们讨论弄清了组织生活中的一些不明确现象.
It had an outline in vagueness, and was flung out to be apprehended.
在有了模糊的轮廓后,(她)把它顺嘴说出来, 是让人领悟.
He would have preferred that such unnatural things should have a greater vagueness.
他宁可这种不自然状态能更隐晦一些.
Vagueness is another thing we're not programmed to accept.
这种含糊不清也是我们事先没想到的.