Paradoxically, when central banks credibly promise to peg the price of an asset, they often need not intervene much to enforce the policy.

矛盾的是，当央行信誓旦旦地承诺会固定资产价格时，他们通常需要太多干预就能执行这一政策。

If you believed it to be impossible, I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far to hear it contradicted Miss Ben.

如果你认为这是可能的，我知道你会劳地跑到这么远的地方来听这与本小姐的说法相矛盾。

Athlete Christopher Bergland explains in an article in Psychology Today how the state of optimal performance, also known as " the zone, " paradoxically emerges when we don't strive for it.

运动员克里斯托弗·伯格兰（Christopher Bergland）在《今日心理学》的一篇文章中当我们努力时，最佳表现状态（也称为“区域”）是如何矛盾地出现的。

We are more distinctly conscious that rude penances are out of the question for gentlemen in an enlightened age, and that mortal sin is not incompatible with an appetite for muffins.

我们更清楚地意识到，对于开明时代的绅士来说，粗鲁的忏悔是可能的，而且大罪与对松饼的胃口并矛盾。

In this case there is a tendency to be indiscriminate in believing that two viewpoints are really not so contradictory, or that in a dispute between two persons there is right on both sides.

在这种情况下， 有一种倾向是分青红皂白地认为两种观点其实并那么矛盾，或者认为在两人之间的争执中双方都有道理。

He has a trick of " coming up missing" . The expression is not as contradictory as it sounds. I, for instance, never come up missing, for it is a known habit of mine to be absent from the Creek without explanation.

他有一招“找见”。这个表达并像听起来那么矛盾。例如，我从来没有失踪过，因为我的一个众所周知的习惯是加地离开小溪。