contradict
contradict 英 [ˌkɒntrəˈdɪkt] 美 [ˌkɑntrəˈdɪkt]
v. 反驳；与…矛盾
进行时:contradicting 过去式:contradicted 过去分词:contradicted 第三人称单数:contradicts 名词复数:contradicts
- "Contra-" usually means "against," and to contradict is to go against or say the opposite of what someone else is doing or saying. Sometimes to contradict is to frustrate with words, like when one person says "The sky is blue" and another says "No, it's azure."
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- v. 反驳；与…矛盾
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1. All evening her husband contradicted everything she said.
整个晚上她说什么丈夫都跟她拌嘴。
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2. You've just contradicted yourself .
你恰好与你刚才说的自相矛盾。
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3. No, it's not,’ she contradicted him.
“不，不是的。”她反驳（他）说。
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4. The two stories contradict each other.
这两种说法相互抵触。
- contradict (v.) 1570s, "speak against, oppose" (a sense now obsolete); 1580s, "assert the contrary or opposite of," from Latin contradictus, past participle of contradicere, in classical Latin contra dicere "to speak against," from contra "against" (see contra (prep., adv.)) + dicere "to say, speak" (from PIE root *deik- "to show," also "pronounce solemnly").
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