柯林斯詞典oxymoron /??ks??m??r?n/ (oxymorons) 1. N-COUNT If you describe a phrase as an oxymoron, you mean that what it refers to combines two opposite qualities or ideas and therefore seems impossible. 矛盾脩飾法[技術(shù)] This has made many Americans conclude that business ethics is an oxymoron. 這使許多美國人將商業(yè)道德歸爲一種矛盾脩飾法。 返回 oxymoron劍橋詞典two words used together that have, or seem to have, opposite meanings 矛盾脩辤法,逆喻 返回 oxymoron