"You are upon your oath, witness!" thundered Mr. Justice Hare. "If it was my--if it was Richard Hare who was with you, say so. But there must be no equivocation here."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
She lifted her hand and covered her glowing face. "No, sir." Surely the recording angel blotted out the words! If ever a prayer for forgiveness went up from an aching heart, it must have gone up then, for the equivocation over her child's death-bed!英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
"I was in despair at having so awkwardly betrayed myself. However, love having wonderfully sharpened my intellect during the last two or three hours, I recollected that I had not yet told him of its being my intention to execute my project on the following morning, and I at once determined to deceive him by a little equivocation.英文原著 · 《Manon Lescaut》
Yet as far as such verbal equivocations may have prevailed, they doubtless helped to sustain the delusion.英文原著 · 《Myths and Myth-Makers》
Nor because they involve a Couplement of Matter and Form. Then why are they Substance? By existing. But does not Quantity exist, and Quality? This anomaly is to be explained by an equivocation in the term "existence." What, then, is the meaning of "existence" as applied to fire, earth and the other elements? What is the difference between this existence and existence in the other categories? It is the difference between being simply- that which merely is- and being white. But surely the being qualified by "white" is the same as that having no qualification?英文原著 · 《THE SIX ENNEADS》
"Accursed be the tongue which tells me so," said the trembling Macbeth, who felt his last hold of confidence give way; "and let never man in future believe the lying equivocations of witches and juggling spirits who deceive us in words which have double senses, and, while they keep their promise literally, disappoint our hopes with a different meaning. I will not fight with thee."英文原著 · 《Tales From Shakespeare》