英语释义

• conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

片语

Oxymoron U反意法

a discussion of oxymoron浅论英语矛盾修饰法

surface oxymoron表层矛盾修饰

Oxymoron E反意法

chinese oxymoron反映

Oxymoron Entertainment名为逆喻文娱公司

oxymoron detail矛盾修饰

deep oxymoron深层矛盾修饰

英汉例句

• most likely, it「s damaged for good as a potential currency with any real value, if that statement isn」t an oxymoron on its face.

  最可能，这将可能使潜在的优秀货币遭到摧残，如果这个申明不像它表面上的那样矛盾。

• the very idea of humor in hospitals may even strike you as an oxymoron (like 「giant shrimp, 」 「smart bombs, 」 「military intelligence, 」 etc.).

  医院和幽默？ 光是想想这两样事情，都可能会觉得像拿自己的剑戳自己的盾（好像听到巨型虾、智能炸弹、军事情报之类消息的反应）。

• although 「talented bankers」 sounds like an oxymoron just now, and the world has too many financiers, employers compete for their skills even in today’s market.

  虽然现在「天才银行家们」听起来很矛盾，况且这个世界上有太多的金融家，即便在当今市场，雇主们也是靠他们的技能来竞争。

• oxymoron as a contradiction in terms didn’t show up until 1902 when someone who worked hard at being lazy was said to be a living oxymoron.

  矛盾修饰法作为措辞上的一种矛盾，直至1902年才出现，当时，努力学着变懒的人据说是活生生的矛盾修饰法的例子。

• so that first english citation defining oxymoron as 「subtly foolish」 is a literal translation, oxymoron really does mean sharp and stupid at the same time.

  因此，英语中最初的引证将oxymoron定义为「敏锐的愚蠢」，是一种直译，oxymoron的确同时意味着敏锐和愚蠢。

• before that oxymoron was a technical term describing a rhetorical device.

  在此之前，oxymoron是一个技术术语，用来描述一种夸张的装置。

• but critics say that 「clean coal」 is a pipe dream, an oxymoron in terms of the carbon emissions that count most toward climate change.

  然而批评者说，「清洁煤」只是一种幻想，由于二氧化碳的排放是引起气候变化的关键，因此「清洁煤」是一个自相矛盾的概念。

• they teach courses on entrepreneurship but it’s kind of an oxymoron the idea of the analysis paralysis b-school students being entrepreneurial.

  他们讲授企业家精神的课程可是却与他们实际的做法互相矛盾。学生们把分析的概念当成企业家精神。

• he said that the idea of something being 「scientifically proven」 was practically an oxymoron and that the very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.

  他讲那种在科学上已被证实的说法实际上一种自我矛盾的措辞，科学的根本基础就是对怀疑敞开大门。

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