释义 |
paraˈdoxically, adv. [f. as prec. + -ly2.] In a paradoxical manner; in such a way or sense as to involve a paradox.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 51, I aunswere paradoxically, but truely. 1606Sir G. Goosecappe v. i. in Bullen O.P. (1884) III. 81 Divinely spoken, Sir, but verie Paradoxicallie. 1788Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lxiv. 512 Some persons have paradoxically maintained that there can be no inconvenience whatever attending any national debt. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede v, Nevertheless, to speak paradoxically, the existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. |