oxymoron的中文翻譯是什麼意思
oxymoron
US/ˌɑksɪˈmɔrɑn/
UK/ˌɒksɪˈmɔ:rɒn/
n. 矛盾形容法，逆喻
oxymoron的柯林斯釋義
N-COUNT矛盾修辭法；逆喻
If you describe a phrase as an oxymoron, you mean that what it refers to combines two opposite qualities or ideas and therefore seems impossible.
This has made many Americans conclude that business ethics is an oxymoron.
這使得很多美國人斷定商業道德是個自相矛盾的說法。
oxymoron的英文釋義
Noun
1. conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
oxymoron的場景例句
It may sound like an oxymoron but money has its Achilles'heel.
聽起來有點矛盾,但錢有它自己的阿基里斯定律.
They thought such a book an oxymoron.
出版商認為,這樣的書包含著自我矛盾.
It may sound like an oxymoron: " A phone booth for the mobile world. "
這聽起來好像有點矛盾: “ 適合移動世界的電話亭. ”