contrary

adj. 相反的；对立的

adv. 相反地

n. 相反；反面

adj.

相反的；违反的，反对的；对立的；顽固的，任性的

n.

对立或相反的事物；对立方；[逻]反对命题；

adv.

相反地，矛盾地；

变形

复数：contraries

双语释义

相反的,相违的 opposite in nature, tendency or direction

[S]相反,反面,对立面 the opposite

英英释义

contrary[ 'kɔntrəri ]

n.

a relation of direct opposition

同义词：reverseopposite

exact opposition

"public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty"

a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false

adj.

very opposed in nature or character or purpose

"acts contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a contrary conclusion"

of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false

"`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms"

resistant to guidance or discipline

"Mary Mary quite contrary"

同义词：obstinateperversewayward

in an opposing direction

"a contrary wind"

同义词：adverse

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

contrary current逆流

contrary wind逆风

副词+～

directly contrary正相反

～+介词

contrary to违背…的

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

prove the contrary证明相反

介词+～

on the contrary正相反

to the contrary相反(的),与此相反(的)

词组短语

on the contrary正相反

to the contrary相反

quite the contrary 恰恰相反 ，正相反

to be contrary to违背；与…相反

同近义词辨析

opposite adj 相反的，相对的，对面的；

contrary adj 相反的，矛盾的，对抗的；

otherwise可做adv，意为“不同的，不那样的”；

unlikely adj 不大可能的

这组词都有“相反的，对立的”的意思，其区别是：

reverse指朝相反方向的或反面(背面)的。

opposite指位置、方向、行动或想法等完全相反。

converse指在方向、行动或意见上相反的。

contrary一般指与某种主张、看法或行为等正好相反，隐含否定一方并不意味着肯定另一方的意味。

adverse通常指违害利益的、无生命的势力或条件等，侧重分歧。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

Hot and cold are contrary terms.
热与冷是相反的词语。

My sister's taste in dresses is contrary to my own.
在服装方面，我妹妹的爱好和我完全不同。

Mrs. Smith is too contrary to make friends easily.
史密斯太太过于固执而不易交朋友。

用作名词(n.)

Cruelty is the contrary of kindness.
残忍是仁慈的反面。

On the contrary,I have tons of things to do.
正相反,我有一大堆事要做。

权威例句

contrary

contrary: [14] Contrary originated as a Latin adjectival formation based on the preposition contrā ‘against’, which historically was a derivative of com or cum ‘with’. Latin contrārius passed into English via Old French contraire and Anglo-Norman contrarie. Originally contrary was pronounced with the main stress on its middle syllable, but this survives only in the sense ‘obstinately self-willed’; from the 18th century onwards, the stress has usually been placed on the first syllable.

contrary (adj.)

mid-14c., from Anglo-French contrarie, from Latin contrarius "opposite, opposed," from contra "against" (see contra).

If we take the statement All men are mortal, its contrary is Not all men are mortal, its converse is All mortal beings are men, & its opposite is No men are mortal. The contrary, however, does not exclude the opposite, but includes it as its most extreme form. Thus This is white has only one opposite, This is black, but many contraries, as This is not white, This is coloured, This is dirty, This is black; & whether the last form is called the contrary, or more emphatically the opposite, is usually indifferent. But to apply the opposite to a mere contrary (e.g. to I did not hit him in relation to I hit him, which has no opposite), or to the converse (e.g. to He hit me in relation to I hit him, to which it is neither contrary nor opposite), is a looseness that may easily result in misunderstanding; the temptation to go wrong is intelligible when it is remembered that with certain types of sentence (A exceeds B) the converse & the opposite are identical (B exceeds A). [Fowler]

1. On the contrary, we should strengthen our ties with them.

相反，我们还应加强和他们的联系。

2. On the contrary, we should strengthen our corporation with them.

相反，咱们应当增强和他们的合作。

3. In the absence of any contrary agreement, the firm accepts full liability.

因为不存在任何相反的协议，该公司承担全部责任。

4. In the contrary, if we never put career first, how can a family exist without the support of the society.

相反的，如果我们不把事业放在第一，没有社会的支持一个家庭如何能存活。

5. On the contrary, so long as they remaIn In conflict they prop one another up, like three sheaves of corn.

相反，只要它们继续冲突，它们就等于互相支撑，就像三捆堆在一起的秫秸一样。

6. To the contrary, we have strengthened our identity.

相反的，我们凸显了我们的身分。

7. On the contrary, they protect them and help if there are any difficulties.

相反的，如果他们遇到了什么困难，警察还会保护并帮助他们。

8. Yet somehow an overwhelming consensus emerged among policy makers and pundits that nothing more should be done to create jobs, that, on the contrary, there should be a turn toward fiscal austerity.

可不知为何在决策者和专家当中出现了压倒一切的共识，即在创造就业方面不应该在做更多的努力，相反，风向却转到了财政紧缩上。

9. On the contrary, I admire her intellectual honesty and her pursuit of self-knowledge.

相反的是，我欣赏她充满智慧的直白和对自我认识的追求。 。

10. On the contrary I can throughly define what I believe.

相反的，我能够完全定义出我所笃信的东西。

11. On the contrary , they began to try to depict space with basic language of painting such as line, surface, rhythm and brushwork.

相反，他们已经开始尝试利用线、面、节奏、笔触等绘画的基本语言来反映画面的空间关系。

12. On the contrary, he was so easygoing and friendly that he volunteered to be our guide.

相反地，他既随和又很友善，所以他自愿当我们的向导。 。

13. On the contrary, if a person realizes the mistakes he have made and corrects it, he should be welcomed and encouraging.

相反，如果一个人意识到了他所犯的错误并及时改正，他应该是要被认可、鼓励的。

14. On the contrary, it enhances our sense of convention, people will realize the importance of our culture.

相反，那反而增强了我们的习俗感，人们会意识到我们文化的重要性。

15. Dreams are very beautiful, while reality sometimes is on the contrary.

梦想是非常美好的，而现实有时却是相反的。

16. On the contrary, I find most faculty more than ever before aware of the importance of teaching well.

相反的是，我觉得大多数教员比以前更能意识到教书的重要性。

17. On the contrary: investors have noticed that all those austerity measures are depressing the Irish economy — and are fleeing Irish debt because of that economic weakness.

相反，投资者已经注意到所有这些紧缩措施正在抑制爱尔兰的经济——由于经济疲软，他们忙于抛售爱尔兰债券。

18. On the contrary, a dirty and polluted city may drive him away.

相反，一个肮脏的和污染严重的城市可能将他赶走。

19. On the contrary, they favored a system that kept blacks out of the paid labor market and away from their jobs.

相反，他们更赞成一个能将黑人自有偿的劳动力市场及自己的工作岗位中排除出去的制度体系。

20. I have no regrets about the two-month long ferry ride. On the contrary, it was the best commute I ever had.

所以，我一点儿也不后悔在渡船上花掉的两个月时间。相反，那是我生平最妙不可言的一段旅程。

21. On the contrary, we will lead a positive and fruitful life if we endeavor to improve ourselves by bridging the gap between our models and us.

相反，如果我们靠弥补我们和榜样之间的差距来努力提高自己，我们就会过一种积极和收获显著的生活。

22. In other words, coffee and beer are not dehydrating, despite common beliefs to the contrary, and regular soda can hydrate you just as well as water.

换句话说，咖啡和啤酒并不会让人脱水——尽管这与人们通常的看法相反——另外，普通汽水的补水效率和水一样。

23. You must be tired. ——On the contrary, I fell wide awake.

你一定是很累了吧。——不，相反地，我觉得很清醒。

24. On the contrary, poor health tends to deprive us of our interest in everything around us.

相反，健康状况不佳，会使我们失去对周围一切事物的兴趣。

25. Their criticism did not discourage me. On the contrary, I worked even harder.

他们的批评并没有使我感到气馁，相反，我比以前更加努力了。

26. I was absolutely convinced of the contrary up to that moment when she looked at me with stern surprise.

我绝对相信，直到她带着·严·厉·的·惊·讶·神·情望我为止，情况恰恰相反。她当时正是带着惊讶的神情。

27. Contrary to what you think.

和你想的恰恰相反。

28. "Did you find the journey tiring?" he asked in avoice that surprised him by its naturalness; and sheanswered that, on the contrary, she had seldom travelledwith fewer discomforts.

“你觉得旅行很累吧？”他问。他的声音十分自然，让他自己都吃了一惊。她回答说恰好相反，她在旅行中很少感到有什么不适。

29. On the contrary, people who choose escape or ignorance their disadvantages will indulge themselves, and they no further progress.

相反，那些选择逃避或者忽视他们缺点的人，他们就会放纵自己，他们就没有更大的进步空间。

30. On the contrary, people who choose escape or ignorance their disadvantages will indulge themselves, and they no further progress.

相反，那些选择逃避或者忽视他们缺点的人，他们就会放纵自己，他们就没有更大的进步空间。

31. On the contrary, bolder graphics help the user to orient himself more quickly when the application pops up.

但暂时式应用不会长时间地停留在屏幕上，因而用户就不会有这样的困扰；相反，在程序弹出时，醒目的图形反而有助于用户更快地定位。

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32. I know nothing to the contrary.

我不知道有和这相反的情况。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

33. Contrary to user-interface paradigms of 20 years ago, menus and dialog boxes shouldn’t be the main method by which normal users perform everyday functions.

与20年前的用户界面的情况相反，菜单和对话框不再是正常用户完成日常功能的主要方法。

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34. In the world of interaction design, the contrary is true. We should constantly strive to reduce the number of elements in user interfaces without reducing the capabilities of the products we are creating.

而在交互设计的世界中，正好相反，我们应该不断地在减少界面元素的情况下仍旧保留产品的功能。

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35. (Contrary to what you might suspect, few users are able to clearly articulate their needs.

（与猜测正好相反，极少有人能够清楚地表述自己的需要。

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36. A government, on the contrary, always has a sanction, expressed or implied.

相反，一个政府永远具有制裁，不管是明定的或暗示性的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

37. Contrary to what many software developers think, questions and choices don’t necessarily make users feel empowered.

与大多数软件开发者所想不同，问题和选择并不是一定会让用户感觉强大。

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38. The implementation model of the file system runs contrary to the mental model almost all users bring to it. Most users picture electronic files like printed documents in the real world, and they imbue them with the behavioral characteristics of those real objects.

文件系统的实现模型和所有用户对于文件系统的心理模型相反，大多数用户将电子文档想像成真实世界中印刷出来的文档，并且完全被这些真实对象的行为特征所迷惑。

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39. aver a fact [the contrary]

断言某一事 [其正相反] 之真实性

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

40. Adaptive menus significantly increase the amount of work performed by users as the idiom runs contrary to the two primary roles of a menu system: to teach users about the breadth and depth of application functionality and to provide access to less-frequently used functions.

适应性菜单显著地增加了使用者的工作量，它作为一种习惯用法违反了菜单系统的两个主要职能。 即教授使用者学会软件更深及更广的功能，为不常使用的功能提供访问途径。

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