He was a paradox—a loner who loved to chat to strangers.

他真是个矛盾人物，生性孤僻却又喜欢和陌生人闲聊。

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This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen".

这在招募第一代学生中造成了“悖论”，但是随后看到他们中的许多人失败了，这意味着高等教育“正在继续繁殖和扩大”。

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And so I'm going to leave you here at the end of this lecture less with a conclusion than with a paradox.

我准备就讲到这里，留给你们,一个文学上的悖论而非一个结论。

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However, and this is what I want to emphasize throughout our reading of Hobbes, he has always been something of a paradox to his readers.

然而，在阅读霍布斯的著作时,我想强调的是，对于他的读者来说,他一直是一种悖论。

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Does he fully intend to obey this command, to annul the covenantal promise with his own hand? Or does he trust in God to intervene? Or is this a paradox of faith? Does Abraham intend faithfully to obey, all the while trusting faithfully that God's promise will nevertheless be fulfilled?

他是否完全打算遵守这个命令，亲手废止,契约的应许？或者，他信任上帝的干涉吗？又或者,这是个信仰的悖论吗？亚伯拉罕打算忠诚地服从，同时,忠实地相信即使如此上帝的应许也会实现吗？

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It's a paradox that as the world gets smaller, friendship links become more difficult to maintain.

BBC: Why are towns un-twinning?

But herein lies a paradox, one you will see replicated wherever people talk about innovation.

FORBES: Why Emerging Markets Are More Innovative Than America

For the Versace controversy illustrates a paradox at the heart of America's religious right.

ECONOMIST: The Versace controversy