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contradictory

contradictory

[英] [ˌkɔntrəˈdɪktəri:] [美] [ˌkɑntrəˈdɪktəri] 生词本

adj.

n.

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1. ADJ-GRADED 互相矛盾的;相互对立的 If two or more facts, ideas, or statements are contradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true. 
  • Customs officials have made a series of contradictory statements about the equipment...

    海关官员们对这种设备作出了一系列互相矛盾的陈述。

  • The public are capable of holding a number of apparently contradictory attitudes.

    公众可能会持有数种显然互相矛盾的态度。

  • ...advice that sometimes is contradictory and confusing.

    有时候相互矛盾、颇令人费解的建议

Noun

1. two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time

Adjective

1. of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false;

  • "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms"

2. that confounds or contradicts or confuses

3. in disagreement;

  • "the figures are at odds with our findings"
  • "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley

4. unable to be both true at the same time

1. He did something contradictory to his orders.
他做了与他的命令不符的事。

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. The argument is internally contradictory.
论据本身自相矛盾。

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3. The evidence demonstrates how easily people can hold mutually contradictory beliefs.
证据表明人很容易持有相互矛盾的信念。

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4. What he said was self-contradictory.; What he said didn't hang together.
他讲话前后不符。

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