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单词 paradoxical
释义
paradoxical
adjective
uk
/ˌpær.əˈdɒk.sɪ.kəl/us
/ˌper.əˈdɑːk.sɪ.kəl/
C2
seemingimpossibleordifficulttounderstandbecause ofcontainingtwooppositefactsorcharacteristics:
似乎互相抵触的，看似互为矛盾的
Itseemsparadoxical to me, but if youdrinkacupofhotteaitseemstocoolyou down.这在我看来好像是矛盾的：喝杯热茶似乎会让人冷静下来。
I was in a verydifficultand paradoxicalsituation.我处于一个非常困难和看似矛盾的境地。
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(Definition ofparadoxicalfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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For another, in a new world dominated by service and information economies, globalization engenders a seeminglyparadoxicalvaluing of community and authenticity.
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The second group comprised 68 patients with a patent oval foramen and had experienced transient ischemic attacks or cerebral infarctions after presumedparadoxicalembolism.
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It is important to note that complete closure was achieved in all patients with patent oval foramen after presumedparadoxicalembolism.
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The theist with standard beliefs about creation and conservation must surely think that (10) reflects the way things are and (9) isparadoxical.
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That is to say, theparadoxicalperformances that may constitute theparadoxicalprimate will requireparadoxicalstrategies of analysis.
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Theseparadoxicalsituations point to the danger of being carried away by smart-home technology without commensurate attention to the resident's mobility restrictions.
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It produces aparadoxicalinversion of linguistic expectations.
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Interestingly, as the essays in this collection chronicle, the backpacker's putative desire to distance oneself from the nation-state has had, perhaps,paradoxicaleffects.
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When viewed in the light of recent molecular studies and emerging paradigms of tumour histogenesis and progression, this baffling class of tumours seems lessparadoxical.
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This placed individuals in aparadoxicalposition : they were vulnerable to exploitation, but protest or complaint risked undermining their position even further.
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The view asserted in the text might seem to beparadoxical.
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At a more general level, a feature common to both historical and present-day labour migration by children seems to be itsparadoxicalnature.
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Suchparadoxicalclaim not so reveals the imperfection of our knowledge as much as the presence of some scientific misunderstandings and prejudices.
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At the end of the twentieth century, concern for food poverty is bothparadoxicaland rational.
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In specular logic, aural contradicts spectacle, positioning itself as aparadoxicalother.
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