Contradictory
[kɒntrə'dɪkt(ə)rɪ] or [,kɑntrə'dɪktəri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time.
(adj.) unable to be both true at the same time .
(adj.) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; '`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms' .
乔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.
(a.) Opposing or opposed; repugnant.
(n.) A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety.
(n.) propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.
埃菲編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Opposite, contrary, inconsistent, repugnant.
編輯:思朋斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Now, really, Dodo, said Celia, with rather a deeper guttural than usual, you _are_ contradictory: first one thing and then another. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He stared after her in a turmoil of contradictory feelings. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The witnesses were stupid and unreliable and contradictory, as witnesses always are. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A system so various in its structure has many contradictory aspects, some very attractive, and some very repellent to a liberal intelligence. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But can anything be imagined more absurd and contradictory than this reasoning? 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This is verbally self-contradictory, but only verbally. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But it must be confessed, that this mixture seems at first sight to be contradictory to my system. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The fact that this culture is multiform and often contradictory is a sign that more and more of the interests of life are finding expression. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Never mind what I make it, my friend, observed Mr. Jaggers, with a knowing and contradictory toss of his head. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Do you mean to say I possess all these contradictory qualities at one and the same time? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Contradictory things to wish,' said Bella, 'but my life and fortunes are so contradictory altogether that what can I expect myself to be! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What contradictory attributes of character we sometimes find ascribed to us, according to the eye with which we are viewed! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Stoical, but contradictory. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Each one carries along a quantity of inert and outworn ideas,--not infrequently there is an internally contradictory current. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Among his other contradictory decorations he had the hat of a bishop and the little gloves of a baby. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
編輯:思朋斯