黑格和罗伯逊把它看作为一个愚蠢政客的疯话。
Haig and Robertson saw it as the lunatic ravings of a mad politician.
作为一个英语单词，这个词最先出现在1657年一本书中，书名为《未曾公之于众的修饰的秘密》，该书的编辑约翰·史密斯将oxymoron定义为“敏锐的愚蠢”。
The word first showed up as an English word in 1657 in a book called The mysterie of rhetorique unvail’d where the editor, John Smith, defined oxymoron as “subtly foolish.”
作为一个管理者来说向一个可能在一年内中断偿还甚至逃债的贷款者提供为期三年的借贷是很愚蠢的；资产与债务的失谐将是破坏性的。
It would be foolish for a manager to make a three-year loan when his own investors could cut and run within a year; the mismatch of assets and liabilities could be ruinous.
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