contradictory

英 [ˌkɒntrəˈdɪktəri]

美 [ˌkɑːntrəˈdɪktəri]

adj.  相互矛盾的; 对立的; 不一致的
n.  对立物; 矛盾因素

复数：contradictories　

高考CET6TOEFLGRETEM4TEM8

BNC.7106 / COCA.7435

牛津词典

adj.

• 相互矛盾的；对立的；不一致的
  containing or showing a contradiction
  1. We are faced with two apparently contradictory statements.
     我们面前这两种说法显然是矛盾的。
  2. The advice I received was often contradictory.
     我所得到的建议常常是相互矛盾的。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 互相矛盾的;相互对立的
  If two or more facts, ideas, or statements arecontradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true.
  1. Customs officials have made a series of contradictory statements about the equipment...
     海关官员们对这种设备作出了一系列互相矛盾的陈述。
  2. The public are capable of holding a number of apparently contradictory attitudes.
     公众可能会持有数种显然互相矛盾的态度。
  3. ...advice that sometimes is contradictory and confusing.
     有时候相互矛盾、颇令人费解的建议

双语例句

• Playing different roles at different times in Chinese history, their representation in historical sources is contradictory.
  他们在不同历史时期扮演着不同的角色，在中国的历史记载中，对他们的描述充满了矛盾。
• What are you in contradictory? Has not been able not to want to cooperate with me?
  你在矛盾什么啊？不会是不想和我合作了吧？
• The development of rock as an artistic form has been contradictory.
  摇滚乐作为一种艺术形式，它的发展是矛盾的。
• The wife you knew I have how contradictory?
  老婆你知道我有多么矛盾吗？
• We must avoid contradictory arguments between our consciences and rules that demand us to act ethically.
  我们必须避免我们的良心和要求我们按伦理行事的规则之间的矛盾冲突。
• For Jung, dualism and monism were not mutually contradictory and exclusive, but complimentary aspects of reality.
  作为容格，二元论和一元论并不是互相地对立和排外的，而是实相的连续外貌。
• The answers to this question were various and contradictory.
  对这个问题的回答前后不同，而且自相矛盾。
• The contradictory statements are symptoms of disarray in the administration.
  这些互相矛盾的说法反映了管理的混乱。
• We all get confused about the contradictory messages that life and politics send.
  生活经验与政治口号的矛盾把我们都搞糊涂了。
• Under the socialist system both aspects form a unified whole and are not ought not to be fundamentally contradictory.
  在我们的社会主义制度下，这两者是统一的，从根本上说，它们没有矛盾，也不应该有矛盾。