cross-purposes

cross-purposes

美 　英

• na.相反的目的[意志,计划]；(一种滑稽游戏)答非所问
• 网络目的相反；各怀鬼胎；话不投机

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英汉双解

英汉解释

例句

We seem to be at cross-purposes. I want to ask you to dinner tomorrow, not your boss.

看来我们是相互误会了：我是想请像明天来赴宴，而不是要请你的老板。

To help deal with that, a number of grouped organizers meet once a week to make sure they are not at cross-purposes.

要想帮助解决这个问题，小组的一些组织者们要每星期碰面一次，以确保他们之间不会相互误解。

You must see to it that the objectives of the company and theobjectives of your team members are not at cross-purposes.

你也必须认识到，公司的目标和你团队成员的目标是不能相左的。

With such a taboo in place, innovators tend to solve their problems quietly and unilaterally, often working at cross-purposes.

有了这样一个禁区存在，创新者们倾向于悄悄地、片面地解决问题，而且常常带有相互矛盾的目的。

Don't be belligerent or appear to be working at cross purposes with the company, she says.

她说，不要表现出敌对情绪，不要让人觉得你与公司离心离德。

We were talking at cross-purposes: I wanted to know the company's plans for next year, and he thought I wanted to change those plans.

我们彼此误解了。我想了解该公司明年的计划，而他认为我要改变那些计划。

I get your drift now, I think. If you mean by "integrity" , what I would call "consistency" then we've been arguing at cross-purposes.

我想现在我明白你的意思了。如果你所说的“正直”就是我所说的“一贯性”，那么我们刚才的争吵就是彼此误解了。

Acreage controls and input subsidies work at cross purposes, each increases the cost of the other .

耕种面积控制和投入补贴的作用背道而驰，每一方的作用都增加了对方的代价。

At many technology companies, various divisions often work at cross purposes, competing with one other to develop related products.

在许多科技公司，各个分支都存在意见分歧，大家互相竞争以发展相关产品。

Albert 's opinion is always at cross purposes with Jim 's .

艾尔伯特的意见总是和吉姆的相反。

The goal was to avoid duplicating efforts or working at cross purposes.

目标是避免重复劳动或是工作目的不一。

They must prevent governments' policies from acting at cross-purposes, of which exchange-rate policies are a good current example.

他们必须防止政府的政策彼此相左——当前一个很好的例子就是外汇政策。

The agencies often worked at cross purposes, sometimes unwittingly.

这两个机构经常在同一个领域中有意或无意的同时开展工作。

Second, he suggested that the good things of modernity often operated at cross-purposes.

第二点，他认为现代化的好处在操作上常常会引发冲突。

"But at the same time the authorities want higher capital. Those aspirations are absolutely running at cross-purposes. "

“但与此同时，各国当局又想提高资本要求。这些想法绝对是相互矛盾的。”

To make sure we are working together, not at cross purposes.

这样才能确保我们共同努力，而不是各奔东西。

The salesmen were working at cross purposes with their supervisor.

售货员与他们负责人的意见南辕北辙。

Rhett Butler: It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it?

巴特勒：好像我们相互误解，不是吗？

As a result, what they do in their own jobs may be at cross- purposes with someone else'sjob.

因此，他们在自己的工作中所做的事情可能与别人的工作目标交叉彼此误解。

The problem puts us at cross purposes with them.

这个问题使我们与他们之间产生了矛盾。

They can become bothered when they see others working at cross purposes, especially when conflict is overt.

当他们看到别人在观点分歧、特别是冲突明显的情况下工作，他们就会变得困扰。

The bad news is that the principals are still at cross-purposes.

坏消息是主要方面仍各有心思。