paradox
英 ['pærədɒks]
美['pærədɑks]
- n. 悖论，反论；似非而是的论点；自相矛盾的人或事
词态变化
复数: paradoxes;副词: paradoxically;形容词: paradoxical;
助记提示
1、para- "contrary, against" + dox-.
中文词源
paradox 矛盾，悖论
para-,相反，-dox,观点，词源同dogma,doctor,orthodox.即相反的观点，引申词义矛盾，悖论。
英英释意
- 1. (logic) a self-contradiction;
- "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"
英文词源
- paradox (n.)
- 1530s, "statement contrary to common belief or expectation," from Middle French paradoxe (14c.) and directly from Latin paradoxum "paradox, statement seemingly absurd yet really true," from Greek paradoxon, noun use of neuter of adjective paradoxos "contrary to expectation, incredible," from para- "contrary to" (see para- (1)) + doxa "opinion," from dokein "to appear, seem, think" (see decent). Meaning "statement that is seemingly self-contradictory yet not illogical or obviously untrue" is from 1560s.
考试真题
- Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- The learning paradox is at the heart of "productive failure".
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
- Why does the author call the learning process a paradox
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
- Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the othe
2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C
- Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.
2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C
- Two paradoxes exist throughout this credibility process.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文
- Millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.
出自-2016年考研阅读原文
- millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.
2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
- This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close" an achievement gap based on social class, according to th
2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
实用场景例句
- He was a paradox─a loner who loved to chat to strangers.
- 他真是个矛盾人物，生性孤僻却又喜欢和陌生人闲聊。
牛津词典
- It is a curious paradox that professional comedians often have unhappy personal lives.
- 这真是个奇怪的矛盾现象——职业喜剧演员的私人生活往往并不快乐。
牛津词典
- ‘More haste, less speed ’ is a well-known paradox.
- “欲速则不达”是人们熟知的似非而是的隽语。
牛津词典
- It's a work full of paradox and ambiguity.
- 这部作品充满了似非而是及模棱两可之处。
牛津词典
- It is paradoxical that some of the poorest people live in some of the richest areas of the country.
- 某些最贫穷的人却住在这个国家一些最富有的地区，这似乎很矛盾。
牛津词典
- Paradoxically, the less she ate, the fatter she got.
- 很矛盾的是，她吃得越少，就变得越胖。
牛津词典
- The paradox is that the region's most dynamic economies have the most primitive financial systems...
- 矛盾之处在于这个地区最有活力的经济体却有着最落后的金融体系。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The paradox of exercise is that while using a lot of energy it seems to generate more...
- 锻炼奇怪的地方在于它会越活动越有劲。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The story contains many levels of paradox...
- 这个故事存在多重悖论。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Although I'm so successful I'm really rather a failure. That's a paradox, isn't it?
- 虽然我非常成功，可事实上我却是个相当失败的人。这句话自相矛盾，是吧？
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Paradox and discovery are two sides of the same coin.
- 矛盾和发现是同一枚硬币的两面.
哲学部分
- Anyone who's been sober at a bar is familiar with this paradox.
- 如果你曾在酒吧还保持清醒,一定对这个看似矛盾的结论不陌生.
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- There has been no satisfactory resolution of the paradox.
- 这个怪现象并没有得到令人满意的解决.
辞典例句
- Man is really something of a paradox.
- 人是一个非常复杂的矛盾体.
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- That's not a paradox, because rising wages have an income as well as a substitution effect.
- 这不是悖论, 是因为工资增长有收入效应还有替代效应.
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- All the scholastic subtleties have neither added anything to nor subtracted the acuteness of this paradox.
- 这一矛盾之敏感,所有经院式的微妙都无法增减半分.
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- The answer to the famous French paradox, say nutritionists, is French wine.
- 很多营养学家给出的答案听上去有些似是而非, 他们认为是法国红酒起的作用.
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- Manifestation : A Paradox where a creature from the Abyss manifests within caster's vicinity.
- 显灵: 矛盾之一,来自深渊的生物将会出现在施法者附近.
期刊摘选
- Although strictly illogical, Martin's interpretation of this paradox seems the best.
- 马丁对于这一悖论的解释尽管严格说来不合乎逻辑, 卻似乎是最好的解释了.
《简明英汉词典》
- He could not bear this continual paradox in which he and the other officers lived.
- 他们这些当官的天天都在无法自圆其说的处境中过日子,他实在受不了.
辞典例句
- The paradox is that most help for internet addicts is only available online.
- 自相矛盾的是,对于那些上网成瘾的人的大多数帮助仅仅是在线提供的.
期刊摘选
- It is proposed by Von Neumann and Morgenstern ( 1947 ) who succeed Bernoulli to answer the St. Petersburg paradox.
- 该模型由VonNeumannand Morgenstern ( 1947 ) 等人,继承18世纪数学家Bernoulli对 “圣.彼得堡悖论”(St. Petersburgparadox )的解答并进行严格的公理化阐述而形成.
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- What paradox becomes academic science to develop is direct because of, move one of.
- 悖论成为理论科学发展的直接动因之一.
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- A professional independent tailoring a paradox, sewing, after the Road workshop!
- 有专业独立的裁剪、打佯 、 缝纫 、 后道车间!
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- We shall first discuss a more mundane version of the twin paradox.
- 我们将先讨论孪生佯谬的一个比较通俗的形式.
辞典例句
- Remember the first paradox: risk only looks like reckless endangerment.
- 记住这第一条矛盾: 风险看起来像真的那毫不在意的危机.
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- The dilemma of dandyism deeply reflects the paradox of aesthetic modernity.
- 纨绔主义的困境,深刻反映了审美现代性中的矛盾命题.
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- The paradox quickly became a social science classic, cited in academic journals and the popular media.
- 这个悖论迅速成为社会科学的经典, 并且在学术期刊和大众媒体中被广泛引用.
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