paradox
美 [ˈperəˌdɑks] 
英 [ˈpærədɒks]
- n.悖论；矛盾的人（或事物、情况）；似非而是的隽语；悖论修辞
- 网络吊诡；似非而是的论点；自相矛盾的话
词形变化
复数：paradoxes 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [c] 矛盾的人（或事物、情况）a person, thing or situation that has two opposite features and therefore seems strange |
| 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。 |
| 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。 |
2. | [c][u] 似非而是的隽语；悖论；悖论修辞a statement containing two opposite ideas that make it seem impossible or unlikely, although it is probably true; the use of this in writing |
| ‘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。 |
| 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。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
It's a bit of a paradox that the "romanticized" idea of the warfare is one that can be interpreted as dull.
这是一个有点自相矛盾的“传奇”理念的战争，也可以被解释为平淡。
The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined him to put every statement in a paradox.
一个现实主义者，总能从事物的表征发现其反面。这使得他用语矛盾。
The reason for this paradox is the placebo effect: believing a treatment to be effective is sometimes enough to make it so.
这种矛盾产生于安慰剂效应：相信治疗是有效的想法有时足以令情况如此。
Of course, does not mean that every scholar is the phenomenon of attention to this paradox, or notes, and not necessarily pursue the matter.
当然并不等于每一位学者都注意这种悖论现象，或注意到了，也不一定追究此事。
Some of the people following our discussion are no doubt familiar with one of those antinomies under the name of Russell's paradox.
有些听我们讨论的人无疑对这些悖论中的一个，即罗素悖论，是熟悉的。
Manchester United has been something of a paradox since the Glazer family took over the club in 2005.
自2005年格雷泽家族接管曼联以来，曼联俱乐部（的许多举措）就有点儿自相矛盾。
Modernist art for public display in the Middle East has long been something of a paradox.
在中东，现代派艺术公开展示这事儿，长久以来算是个两难问题。
And I've decided, for me, it's been a real journey and paradox.
就自己而言，我认定它是一个实实在在的旅程，充满了自相矛盾。
Instead, despite the horror that he wreaked, the paradox remains that he seems like a blank-faced killer out of a Norwegian novel.
相反，尽管他所为带来了恐惧，他仍然像小说中走出来的冷面杀手。
For many years researchers had been spurred on by an apparent paradox: that rising incomes did not make people happier in the long run.
多年以来，研究人员因为一个显而易见的矛盾而钻了牛角尖：持续增长的收入并不会让人们长时间里感觉更幸福。
Yet isn't it a paradox that China is both a developing country and the developed world's potential lender of last resort?
然而，中国既是发展中国家，又是发达世界潜在的最后贷款人，这难道不是一个矛盾吗？
Blood-soaked pop theology for a doom-laden time, its effect that of a gripping yet reductive paradox: It lifts us downward.
流行神学，它的影响效应就是一个吸引人的但是在减少中的悖论：提升我们向低处发展。
What's dawned on me is just how much a good life requires embracing paradox.
我渐渐明白，美好的生活是多么需要“悖论”。
When designing XML formats, the complexity of addresses introduces a bit of a paradox.
在设计XML格式时，地址的复杂性造成了一个悖论。
The paradox of the shadow detection was that it was difficult to solve false shadow detection and shadow missing problems simultaneously.
常用的阴影检测算法很难同时解决好阴影的误检和漏检这一对矛盾问题。
For this spring, something of a paradox is hanging over the mortgage-backed securities world.
这个春季，抵押贷款支持证券（MBS）领域出现了某种矛盾的现象。
One of the oldest of all thought experiments is the paradox known as the Ship of Theseus, which originated in the writings of Plutarch.
史上最为古老的思想实验之一便是被称为忒修斯之船的悖论。这个实验最早出自普鲁塔克的记载。
But Masters, that concept is something of a is a paradox, and like a face card it is upside down either way you look at it.
但是，大师们，这某种意义上是一个悖论，就像扑克牌的上下两面那样两边都一样有道理。
There was a serious paradox in the Mayan tribes: they had an advanced knowledge system, yet their social system was close to primitive.
而玛雅部落存在着一个很严重的悖论：拥有先进的知识体系，其社会体系却接近于原始。
Underneath the surface of an ideal commonwealth the author is in fact talking about a paradox the ideal society and its functionality.
在一个所谓的“理想社会”的表面之下，托马斯·莫尔表述的是一个悖论：理想社会及其虚构性。
The apparent paradox was that only as America became more American could it afford to be more European.
有趣的是，只有美国更加美国化的时候，美国才敢于欧化。
It was here, to use a paradox, that he became conscious of the unconscious mind and proceeded to make it the sole subject of his studies.
也正是在这儿，他开始关注人的潜意识，并逐步把它作为自己的研究主攻方向。
Definitions also bring paradox: Western civilization began in what is now Iraq, but it would be hard to make a case now for Iraq as Western.
定义同样会带来矛盾：西方文明始于当代的被称做伊拉克的地方，但已很难把伊拉克当做西方国家的一个例子；
This is something of a paradox, given how deeply the EU permeates the lives of its citizens.
鉴于欧盟如此深入地渗入到其居民的生命，这看起来有些自相矛盾。
The relationship between fairness and efficiency has always been considered to be a counter-balance paradox.
公平与效率关系一向被认为是一个此消彼长的悖论。
Indeed, the paradox at the heart of this ostensibly clever and undoubtedly complex plan is its dependence on subsidies to private investors.
的确，就这个表面上聪明且绝对复杂的计划而言，其核心矛盾是：它依赖于对私人投资者的补贴。
To understand this intensification of the paradox, we have to consider the way secularization has taken place in America.
为了更好的理解这种矛盾加剧的原因，我们首先要考虑世俗化在美国产生的原因。
This seeming paradox is explained by a peculiar change which took place in the social structure of the Kuomintang during the Japanese war.
所以产生这种怪现像的原因在于抗日战争期间国民党的社会结构发生了特殊变化。
Indeed the paradox is that what you term as 'Power' is often the polar opposite of love.
事实上，吊诡的是，你所称的“权力”，往往是“爱”的极性反面。
Only late did the economists discover that the apparent paradox was the outcome of a vicious formulation of the problem involved.
到后来，经济学家们才发现，这个表面上的矛盾是由于把问题讲错了。
However, Network advertising is still unable to escape the ancient paradox of duality - the economic development and ethical anomie.
然而，网络广告依然无法逃脱古老的二元悖论—经济发展和伦理失范。
It was busy and crowded and yet at the same time peaceful. This was a paradox she discovered over and over again . . .
这里繁忙而拥挤，但同时又很安静，这是她一再发现的一种矛盾现象。
This paradox cannot be explained away as simple ignorance, jealousy, or intolerance, and it is not the only paradox.
这种似是而非的做法不能简单地解释为无知，嫉妒或者偏执，而且这不仅仅是似是而非的做法。
The conclusions that this paradox demands are, let's say, bewildering for the old-fashioned reader.
从这一悖论中呼之欲出的结论，这么说吧，会让那些老派的读者难以理解。
Let us try then to see what Russell's paradox means, when it covers something which is not far from what is there on the board.
然后让我们设法瞧一瞧，当逻素的矛盾律，涵盖某件根本就没有被书写在黑板上的东西，那会是什麽东西？
North Paradox reflected valid Institution keep the economy growth and a nation reserving by old invalid system to hold out for long time.
如何激励政府创造有效制度，使一个国家脱离“诺思悖论”的泥潭，一直是制度经济学关注的焦点。
Man is really something of a paradox.
人是一个非常复杂的矛盾体。
The paradox of the logic of Neo-conservatism is evident. The tendency and prospect of Neo-conservatism is still in an uncertain state.
新保守主义的逻辑悖论是明显的，它的前途和走向处于不定状态之中。
The paradox of this virtualization of capitalism is ultimately the same as that of the electron in elementary particle physics.
这种资本主义虚拟化的矛盾与基础高能物理学中的电子极为相似。
The apparent paradox was that only as America became more American could it afford to be more European.
有趣的是，只有美国更加美国化的时候，美国才敢于欧化。
This problem persisted in Hearts of Iron 2 and to be honest we here at Paradox Towers felt that all in all this was unsatisfactory.
这个问题坚持小胡子养成计划2和说实话，我们在这里悖论韬认为，所有的一切，这是不能令人满意的。
