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paradox

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par·a·dox /ˈpærədɒks $ -dɑːks/ ●○○ noun  
1  [countableC]STRANGE a situation that seems strange because it involves two ideas or qualities that are very different 自相矛盾（的情况）
 It’s a paradox that in such a rich country there can be so much poverty.
在如此富有的国家却有这么多的贫穷现象，真是矛盾。
2  [countableC]OPPOSITE/REVERSE a statement that seems impossible because it contains two opposing ideas that are both true 悖论，似非而是的说法
 The paradox is that fishermen would catch more fish if they fished less.
悖论就是: 如果渔夫减少捕鱼，反而会打到更多的鱼。
3. [uncountableU]OPPOSITE/REVERSE the use of statements that are a paradox in writing or speech 悖论修辞
—paradoxical /ˌpærəˈdɒksɪkəl◂ $ -ˈdɑːk-/ adjectiveadj
Examples from the Corpus
paradox• The recent attacks, in which 17 people were killed and 28 injured, are a paradox for many.• Isn't it a paradox that the airline with the lowest fares is the one with the most customer satisfaction?• There's a paradox in the fact that although we're living longer than ever before, people are more obsessed with health issues than they ever were.• Fortunately, a way out of this apparent paradox exists.• The agony and the ecstasy of the eleventh-hour reprieve illustrated the central paradox of Calvinism.• Solving the infective dose paradox might lead to new strategies for elimination of this preventable pneumonia.• The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.• Being defined in terms of tension or paradox, ambiguity's potential diversity was restored to some sort of unitary wholeness.• To explain this seeming paradox, let me refer you to a drawing now found in many introductory psychology textbooks.• It is this paradox, according to Brooks, that is the main point of the poem.
Origin paradox
(1500-1600) Latin paradoxum, from Greek, from paradoxis “opposite to what is expected”
par·a·dox noun
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 6552 COCA: 6775
paradox

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ADJECTIVE | VERB + PARADOX | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤apparent, seeming (especially NAmE) 明顯的／表面上的矛盾➤great極大的矛盾➤central, fundamental中心矛盾；基本悖論➤curious, interesting, strange古怪的／有趣的／奇怪的矛盾VERB + PARADOX➤create, pose, present形成／建立／構成矛盾◇The facts pose something of a paradox.這些事實有自相矛盾之處。➤address, explore處理／探索悖論➤reveal揭示矛盾➤explain, resolve, solve解釋矛盾；解決矛盾PREPOSITION➤paradox about關於⋯的矛盾◇The paradox about time is that it seems to go faster as we become older and less active.時間的矛盾之處在於，我們年紀漸長不如以前活躍的時候，它似乎走得更快了。➤paradox between⋯之間的矛盾◇the paradox between the real and the ideal現實與理想之間的矛盾➤paradox in⋯中的矛盾◇the paradox in the relationship between creativity and psychosis創造力和精神病二者關係中的矛盾➤paradox of⋯的矛盾◇The author tackles one of the deepest paradoxes of life.作者就人生中的一個最大悖論進行了探討。PHRASES➤by a curious paradox按奇怪的矛盾◇By a curious paradox, the team became less motivated the more games it won.這個隊贏的場次越多越沒有動力，真是一個奇怪的矛盾。
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 6552 COCA: 6775
paradox noun
⇨ mystery
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 6552 COCA: 6775

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