A nursery rhyme may not make sense and even seem contradictory.

也许童谣本身并没有意义，内容甚至会显得有些自相矛盾。

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Customs officials have made a series of contradictory statements about the equipment.

海关官员们对于这种设备做出了一系列相互矛盾的陈述。

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It just explains that you feel a certain way and it might be contradictory to what is expected of you.

它只是说明你有一种特定的感觉，它可能与你的期望相矛盾。

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"I should say that is rather contradictory." "If you put a lot of subsidy that means the production is not competitive or not cost efficient."

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Like that phrase, "a terrible beauty," the poem is full of contradictions, of contradictory feelings.

就如诗句，可怕的美，惊人之美“,此诗充满矛盾，和情感的冲突。

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It just explains that you feel a certain way and it might be contradictory to what is expected of you

它可以表达你产生了一种可能与他人对你的预期相反的感觉。

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Yet President Bush, days later, made a seemingly contradictory statement to a reporter.

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Now, knowing that Mr. Scarborough is a conservative, it is totally understandable that he would hold contradictory opinions on a lot of things.

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Mr Cable denied putting out a contradictory message to Mr Clegg, who had hailed the coalition's success in cutting net migration "by a third" in his speech.

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