【例】The share of information and the security of information are the most paradox in computer network.計算機網絡的信息共享與信息安全是網絡上最大的悖論。
【構詞】para-(前綴=contrary 相反)+dox(=opinion觀點)→自相矛盾的觀點
【同義替換】inconsistency, contradiction
【派生】paradoxical a.矛盾的 paradoxically ad.矛盾地
【真題】His argument is that the unusual history of these people has subjected them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this paradoxical state of affairs.
【真題】We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.
【例】We should neither underestimate nor overestimate our abilities.我們既不應低估我們的能力,也不該高估我們的能力。
【構詞】under-(不足,少)+estimate(估算)→低估
【同義替換】undervalue, misjudge
【真題】Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past.