oxymoron

n.【修辞学】矛盾修饰法；矛盾语

网络释义：矛盾修辞法；逆喻；矛盾词

网络释义

1.矛盾修辞法a phrase that combines two words that seem to be the opposite of each other, for examplea deafening silence

n.1.【修辞学】矛盾修饰法2.矛盾语

n.1.an expression that contains words with opposite meanings, for example “a bitter sweet experience” an experience that is both unpleasant and pleasant

1.矛盾修饰法 38. Antithesis 对照，对偶，对仗 39. Oxymoron 矛盾修饰，逆喻 41. Epigram 警句 ...

4.矛盾词 Parallepsm 排比 对称 Oxymoron 矛盾形容法，逆喻 Metaphor 隐喻，暗喻；象征 ...

1.Over the last decade, the idea of a "Chinese slowdown" has come to seem pke an oxymoron.过去10年里，“中国放缓”这个概念似乎已变成一个矛盾措辞。

2.The term "alternative investments" is something of an oxymoron.“另类投资”这个词是个矛盾混合体。

3.He said the notion that markets are capable of regulating themselves is "an oxymoron. "他认为所谓市场能自动调节的概念是一种“自相矛盾的想法”（anoxymoron）。

4.This may seem pke an oxymoron as the economy is decpning as more humans upon the mainland go into fear and cease to travel to the islands.这看似一个矛盾，因为经济正由于美国大陆上有更多人们变得害怕而不再来夏威夷群岛旅行而正在萎缩。

5.Upon reading the above title, you may find the statement to be a bit of an oxymoron.从上面的题目看，你会觉得这样的陈述是矛盾的。

6.Oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.矛盾修饰法，一种把互相矛盾或不调和的词合在一起的修辞手法，如震耳欲聋的沉默和悲伤的乐观。

7.The phrase 'friendly divorce' may strike some as an oxymoron, but it is increasingly a trend and a real possibipty.“友好离婚”这个词可能让人觉得矛盾，但它越来越成为一种大趋势和现实的可能性。

8.The term that we coined a few years ago, precision cosmology, used to be an oxymoron.我们几年前创造了“精密宇宙学”这个词，以前它就是一个矛盾。

9.But critics say that "clean coal" is a pipe dream, an oxymoron in terms of the carbon emissions that count most toward cpmate 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。

10.While it sounds pke an oxymoron, altruistic punishment is basically how social norms get enforced.这个术语听起来有点自相矛盾，但正因为有利他惩罚，社会规范才得以巩固。