contradictory
contradictory
英[ˌkɒntrəˈdɪktəri]美[ˌkɑːntrəˈdɪktəri]
adj.对立的；
例句
He did something contradictory to his orders.他做了与他的命令不符的事。
The explosive images and conjunctions, often contradictory, are reductive and then romantic.这些爆发性的意象和结合常常相互矛盾, 支离破碎而又富于浪漫色彩.
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.
He sent out a few cautious feelers and received some contradictory answers.他作过几次谨慎的试探,得到的答复前后不一.
The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾.
The little information that we could glean about them was largely contradictory.我们能够收集到的有关它们的少量信息大部分是自相矛盾的.
By contrast Mr McCain's initial reactions were frenetic and contradictory.相比之下,麦凯恩*初的反应是乱了阵脚,相互矛盾.
Taoist school and Taoism's ideas were an encyclopedical system and have self - contradictory content.士大夫在接触道家、道教时,总是根据自己的需要、喜好做出自己的理解和 取舍.
We are faced with two apparently contradictory statements.我们面前这两种说法显然是矛盾的。
He is notorious for making unexpected, often self-contradictory, comments.他发表的那些出人意料而且经常自相矛盾的评论令他臭名昭著。
英语六级真题
The traits that characterise him are very contradictory to the racial stereotypes that black people are aggressive and uneducated," says Ashby Plant of Florida State University.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
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.
例句
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。英汉词典释义
adj.
矛盾的;抵触的
He did something contradictory to his orders.他做了与他的命令不符的事。The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾。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。英英词典释义
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 Morley4. unable to be both true at the same time
