contradiction是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 反驳， 否认； 矛盾， 不一致，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in sin-gular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet, observing the strange law of contradiction which obtains in all such cases, the time was long, while it flamed by so fast.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet if the contradiction is credible I experienced at the same time an odd feeling that in some way I had already encountered exactly the features and gestures that now amazed me.
-- It may seem a strange contradiction in me, I cannot explain the fact, but now, seeing the creature there in a perfectly animal attitude, with the light gleaming in its eyes and its imperfectly human face distorted with terror, I re-alised again the fact of its humanity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sviazhsky was one of those people, always a source of wonder to Levin, whose convictions, very logical though never original, go one way by themselves, while their life, exceedingly definite and firm in its direction, goes its way quite apart and almost always in direct contradiction to their convictions.
-- "If it were only a passing fancy or a passion, if it were only this attraction--this mutual attraction (I can call it a MUTUAL attraction), but if I felt that it was in contradiction with the whole bent of my life--if I felt that in giving way to this attraction I should be false to my vocation and my duty...but it's not so.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a direct and palpable contradiction of the tale related by the father caused all eyes to be turned on him.
-- 'I see no contradiction to the gifts of any man in passing his breathing spells in useful reflections,' the scout replied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her own viewsof every question, and her correction of everything that was said towhich she was opposed, Miss Dartle insinuated in the same way:some- times, I could not conceal from myself, with great power,though in contradiction even of Steerforth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now I began to wonder at myself for being in the coach, and to doubt whether I had sufficient reason for being there, and to consider whether I should get out presently and go back, and to argue against ever heeding an anonymous communication, and, in short, to pass through all those phases of contradiction and indecision to which I suppose very few hurried people are strangers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It struck me that had I sought the world over, I could not have found a greater contradiction to my impulsive uncle.
-- This was singularly in contradiction with the theories of Professor Hardwigg.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many wonderful things did he see and hear, and much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master's of all healing was.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that contradiction in the lamp more and more appals him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spirit of contradiction was strong in Mr. Grimwig's breast, at the moment; and it was rendered stronger by his friend's confident smile.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had I continued in the station I was now in, I had room for all the happy things to have yet be-fallen me for which my father so earnestly recommended a quiet, retired life, and of which he had so sensibly described the middle station of life to be full of; but other things at-tended me, and I was still to be the wilful agent of all my own miseries; and particularly, to increase my fault, and double the reflections upon myself, which in my future sor-rows I should have leisure to make, all these miscarriages were procured by my apparent obstinate adhering to my foolish inclination of wandering abroad, and pursuing that inclination, in contradiction to the clearest views of doing myself good in a fair and plain pursuit of those prospects, and those measures of life, which nature and Providence concurred to present me with, and to make my duty.
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