ill-defined

英 [ˌɪl dɪˈfaɪnd]

美 [ˌɪl dɪˈfaɪnd]

adj.  不清楚的; 含混的; 轮廓不清的; 不明显的

牛津词典

adj.

• 不清楚的；含混的
  not clearly described
  1. an ill-defined role
     不明确的角色
• 轮廓不清的；不明显的
  not clearly marked or easy to see
  1. an ill-defined path
     若隐若现的小径

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不清楚的;不分明的;不确定的
  If you describe something asill-defined, you mean that its exact nature or extent is not as clear as it should be or could be.
  1. ...staff with ill-defined responsibilities.
     职责划分不明确的员工队伍

英英释义

adj

• poorly stated or described
  1. he confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts
  Synonym:unclear

双语例句

• It may be vague and ill-defined to our conscious gaze.
  这可能是含糊不清，定义不明，我们有意识地凝视。
• Last week's guilty verdict has brought no illumination for foreign companies worried that they too could find themselves violating ill-defined Chinese secrecy laws, writes William MacNamara.
  上周力拓案的有罪判决并没有给外国公司带来任何启示。它们担忧，可能会发现自己也违反了中国定义不明确的保密法。
• The plethora of so many descriptive terms may reflect the ill-defined nature of any putative clinical syndrome of age-specific relative androgen deficiency.
  文中过多地使用描述性术语，可能反映了人们对于各种假定的年龄特异性雄激素相对缺乏临床综合症的本质都还没有明确的定义。
• This can lead to palpation of an ill-defined "lump" in the breast.
  乳腺可触诊到不明原因的“肿块”。
• ( of a person) easily angered; irritable; touchy an ill-defined state of irritability and distress.
  （指人）易怒的，脾气暴躁的，动辄发火的容易发怒压抑的不清楚的状态。
• The proposed regulations are ill-defined and cumbersome and could be unnecessarily costly.
  提议的规章制度阐述不清、复杂低效，而且可能会带来不必要的过高花费。
• Although they are often ill-defined, this is not always the case.
  虽然这些病灶一般都边缘模糊，但并不总是如此。
• It's unknown, ill-defined because this curve is, of course, not very physical.
  它很难定义是多少，因为这条曲线，不是非常物理的。
• It's true that during this first second a is minus six meters per second squared, but it changes abruptly at this point so it's ill-defined at this point.
  在先前的2秒钟里，加速度的确是每秒-6米，但是在这一点上突然发生了变化，因此这一点很难定义加速度是多少。
• However, the scope of the privilege is ill-defined, because disputes over executive privilege are ordinarily resolved through political compromise rather than court litigation.
  然而无论如何，特权的范围界定含糊，因为有关行政特权的争议一般是通过政治妥协而不是通过法院诉讼得到解决的。