con·tra·ry

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【释义】：

a．❶ 相反的：listen patiently to opinions contrary to one’s own耐心听取反面意见．pipe a tune contrary to同…唱反调．The result was contrary to what I had expected．结果与我原来预料的正相反．❷ 逆的：a contrary current逆流．contrary winds逆风．❸ 【口语】固执的，任性的．

－ad．相反地．

－n．相反，对立，反面：The contrary of‘good’is‘bad’．好的反面是坏．on the contrary 相反地：You seem to consider the incident trivial：it is．on the contrary，very serious．你好象认为那事件微不足道；恰恰相反，它是很重要的．to the contrary 相反的(地)：I will come on Monday unless you write me to the contrary．我星期一一定来，除非你写信告诉我不要来．I shall continue to believe it until I get proof to the contrary．我会一直相信这件事，直到我得到相反的证明．by contraries恰恰相反地，与原意相反：He has interpreted my statement by contraries．他把我的话解释得和我的原意恰恰相反．