| 词汇 | oxymoron |
| 释义 | oxymoron noun[ C ] language specializeduk /ˌɒk.sɪˈmɔː.rɒn/ us /ˌɑːk.sɪˈmɔːr.ɑːn/ two words or phrases used together that have, or seem to have, opposite meanings: 矛盾修辞法，逆喻 The very notion of an entrepreneurial company man is an oxymoron. For most of the nineteenth century, scholars treated “medieval science” as an oxymoron. There is a metropolitan belief that rural retail therapy is an oxymoron. The whole concept of the music industry is an oxymoron. That monster is reality television, which hardly anyone seems to have realized is an oxymoron. Denying & contradicting abnegate abnegation breath burst someone's bubbleidiom contradictorily counter-argue debunk deniable deny disabuse disagree dispute make (a) nonsense of somethingidiom myth-buster myth-busting non-acceptance non-recognition recant refute speak for yourselfidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Linguistic terms & linguistic style oxymoron | American Dictionaryoxymoron noun[ C ] us/ˌɑk·sɪˈmɔr·ɑn, -ˈmoʊr-/ grammar a phrase or statement that seems to say two opposite things, as in "jumbo shrimp" and "agree to disagree" Examples of oxymoronoxymoron The genre of 'historical fiction' is an oxymoron to begin with. The oxymoron 'logic plus control' expresses the abnegation of such a natural identification. Their love, in fact, is still unrequited, suspended between death and life, confined in such a voluptuous and yet unresolved oxymoron. The deeper problem, if we too may put it rhetorically, is that a 20,000-year lifestyle with a satellite computer is an oxymoron. The term 'constitutional democracy' can be interpreted as either an oxymoron or a tautology. Such techniques as punning, oxymoron, and hyperbole are employed by ad-men to lure customers for their clients. Thus, aural spectacle is and is not an oxymoron. With anticipated emergence (an oxymoron!), the author of a grammar writes rules and knows, by looking at the rules, that certain shapes will emerge. This interpretation runs counter to previously held views of liberal utilitarianism as an oxymoron. In this environment, reconciling a 'devolved market' with public accountability for a centrally funded service may be to enter the territory of the oxymoron. An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. Add the prefix ' veteran ' to the term, and the oxymoron perhaps becomes even more of an impossible contradiction. For much of the post-1945 period, the presence of the terms ' major powers ' and ' peacekeeping' in the same sentence would have been an oxymoron. My own view is that an academic boycott is an oxymoron: you do not have a boycott on dialogue and debate. Category-theory is entirely concerned with spiritual operations, as is traditional logic, although the idea of a spiritual second-order quantifier is almost an oxymoron. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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