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单词 paradox
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paradox

noun
/ˈpærədɒks/
/ˈpærədɑːks/
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  1. [countable] 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.
    • It is a curious paradox that professional comedians often have unhappy personal lives.
    Extra Examples
    • The author tackles one of the deepest paradoxes of life.
    • The facts pose something of a paradox.
    • the paradox in the relationship between creativity and psychosis
    • The paradox about time is that it seems to go faster as we become older and less active.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • apparent
    • seeming
    • great
    verb + paradox
    • create
    • pose
    • present
    preposition
    • paradox about
    • paradox between
    • paradox in
    phrases
    • by a curious paradox
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  2. [countable, uncountable] 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.
    • It's a work full of paradox and ambiguity.
    Wordfinder
    • alliteration
    • euphemism
    • figure of speech
    • hyperbole
    • image
    • litotes
    • metaphor
    • metonymy
    • onomatopoeia
    • paradox
    Topics Doubt, guessing and certaintyc1, Languagec1
  3. Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally denoting a statement contrary to accepted opinion): via late Latin from Greek paradoxon ‘contrary (opinion)’, neuter adjective used as a noun, from para- ‘distinct from’ + doxa ‘opinion’.
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