paradoxical

英 [ˌpærəˈdɒksɪkl]

美 [ˌpærəˈdɑːksɪkl]

adj.  似自相矛盾的

考研TEM8医学

BNC.12338 / COCA.12379

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 自相矛盾的；似矛盾而（可能） 正确的
  If something isparadoxical, it involves two facts or qualities which seem to contradict each other.
  1. Some sedatives produce the paradoxical effect of making the person more anxious...
     一些镇静剂适得其反，加重了患者的焦虑。
  2. We were a team of individuals — as paradoxical as that sounds.
     我们是一个保持了个体的团队——尽管这听起来自相矛盾。

英英释义

adj

• seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
  1. it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking
  Synonym:self-contradictory

双语例句

• It's a paradoxical thing.
  这是一件吊诡之事。
• In the hundred-year history of Chinese literature development, popular literature has followed a paradoxical course.
  在百年中国文学发展史中，大众文学走了一条吊诡的路线。
• However, in the adult world, children's spirit has become a paradoxical existence.
  在成人的世界里，儿童精神成为了一个悖论式的存在。
• And some paradoxical implications of earlier research now vanish.
  早先研究给出的一些自相矛盾的启示现在都消失了。
• This may strike you as paradoxical.
  您可能觉得这有点自相矛盾。
• One of the more paradoxical is the damage that has been done to business ethics.
  对商业道德造成的破坏，是其十分荒谬的后果之一。
• It is perhaps paradoxical to talk of benefit and the brain drain at the same time.
  把人才流失和非洲受益放在一起，或许有点自相矛盾。
• These examples should help you see that, as paradoxical as it seems, stress can be a sanctuary.
  这些例子应该有助于你认识到也许看上去是矛盾的，可是压力成为了一个避难所。
• Design is an act of making, so the idea of design thinking is paradoxical, 'he said.
  摩霍兹说，设计是一个制作的行为，因此设计思维这个概念本身就是自相矛盾的。
• But history sometimes plays paradoxical games and human cultures sometimes persist in strange ways.
  然而，历史有时候会荒谬的重演，人类的文化有时候一一些方式顽强的坚持着。