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单词 contradict
释义
contradict
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˌkɒn.trəˈdɪkt/us
/ˌkɑːn.trəˈdɪkt/
C1
(ofpeople) to say theoppositeof what someoneelsehas said, or (of onefactorstatement) to be so different from anotherfactorstatementthat one of them must bewrong:
反驳，否定；（事实或声明）（与…）相矛盾，（与…）有抵触
If you're both going tolie, at leaststickto the samestoryand don't contradict each other!如果你们俩都要撒谎，至少也要口径一致，不要互相矛盾！
Hekeptcontradicting himselfwhen we werearguing- Ithinkhe was abitconfused.我们争论时他一直自相矛盾——我想他有点糊涂了。
Howdareyou contradict (me)!你怎么敢顶撞我！
Recentevidencehas contradictedestablishedtheorieson thissubject.关于这一问题，最近发现的证据与已有理论相抵触。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Denying & contradicting
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  • abnegation
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  • Dutchman
  • fly
  • fly in the face ofsomethingidiom
  • in the same breathidiom
  • oxymoronic
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  • refutation
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  • speak
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(Definition ofcontradictfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

contradict| American Dictionary

contradict
verb[T]
us
/ˌkɑn·trəˈdɪkt/
(ofpeople) tostatetheoppositeof what someone has said, or (of onefactorstatement) to be so different from anotherfactorstatementthat one of them must bewrong:
Hertestimonycontradicted the policeman’stestimony, and thejuryhad todecidewho wastellingthetruth.

contradictory

adjectiveus
/ˌkɑn·trəˈdɪk·tə·ri/
Wereceivedcontradictoryaccountsabout thesuccessof themilitarycampaign.
(Definition ofcontradictfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontradict

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Therefore, with this easier criterion, the sequence from visual perspective taking to pronoun acquisition was reversed, contradicting our first two hypotheses.
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Some scholars have argued that points where oral sources seem tocontradictother evidence is precisely where historians should focus their attention.
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Still, the contradicting presence of more gender dysphoria in childhood but less at application should alert the clinician when assessing eligibility.
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The spectral development shows no clear evidence of internal waves, either, and phase mcasurernents alsocontradicta wave hypothesis.
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In the case of the president's party, the relationship between performance and the vote contradicts standard referendum theories of economic voting.
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As situations encoding a result cannot be contradicted by a conjoined clause (cf. section 4.4), the contradiction test was used to discover resultatives.
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This point is rather subtle and easily overlooked, which contradicts our general claim that we can "read off" an algorithm from the typing rules.
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However, this contradicts our choice of the arithmetic progression.
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Indeed, it is contradicted by the essays that follow.
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This contradicts the idea that reflexive pronouns must have an antecedent binding them.
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In effect, the privatisation programme contradicted the existing legal norms created to protect the previous statist development model.
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In such a scenario, recommendations resulting from scientific evidence couldcontradictthe opaque process of deliberation and its consequential decisions.
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The resulting descriptive schemes clearly contradicted one another: the one stressed radical breaks, the other demonstrated underlying continuities in the history of a nation's art.
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And by conjunctive closure that would make it rational to accept that no ticket will win, contradicting our knowledge that the lottery has a winner.
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There is therefore no guarantee whatsoever that they are not going to be contradicted in other corpora.
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