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Перевод: ambivalent

[прилагательное]
двойственный; амбивалентный; противоположный; противоречивый

Тезаурус:

1. The attitude of the popes was naturally ambivalent.
2. Of the three action sample carers, two had moved towards a preference for home care: Mrs Cummings' daughter-in-law, though appearing ambivalent, said she was happy for Mrs Cummings to remain at home now that the project, and the services it had generated, had made caring for her mother-in-law so much easier; and Mrs Cowan's son-in-law said: "she likes her own home so she's entitled to stay there".
3. The best hope of an autonomy deal surviving - forget about democracy - is the bleakness of the alternative facing Mr Hussein: an ambivalent slab of northern territory run for an indefinite period by foreign armies, and therefore largely outside Iraqi control.
4. Consider two kinds of ambivalent transgressive reinscription within gay culture, camp and machismo.
5. Menstrual taboos, even in their Jewish expressions, are replete with an ambivalent fusion of the sacred and the taboo.
6. Equally ambivalent seems the treatment of the relationship between children and their parents where the compromise struck between the rights of young people to independent pedagogical support and the insistence on the consent by parents appears to result de facto in greater dependency of under-age youth on parents.
7. Faced with such effective local opposition civil servants in charge of delivering on policy conditions may indeed feel ambivalent about the desirability of an individual structural adjustment loan.
8. Lord Home, who possesses a degree of candour unusual in political life, is still ambivalent about his handling of economic policy.
9. For all that we have said about the role of the country districts round - which applies as much to northern as to Italian cities - and the close relation, however ambivalent, of religious aspirations and the development of towns, it is in the end their place in the accumulation of wealth which marks them out in this age: they are at once the symbols and the centres of mammon; in them gathered the moneyers who struck coin and the merchants who exchanged and accumulated it.
10. Secondly, was the Labour Party ambivalent in its attitude towards the Spanish Republican government?
11. But the public remains ambivalent about the Prime Minister's free-market policies and there are rumblings of union discontent and sporadic strikes.
12. Telegraph/Times readers were more ambivalent, however, and our small sample of Guardian readers preferred the press by a big majority.
13. Above all, it was ambivalent; and a brief inspection of the obverse and reverse of the coin will help to give us an insight into its meaning.