contrary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 相反的， 矛盾的n. 反对， 矛盾； 相反，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We sometimes have strange, impossible dreams, contrary to all the laws of na-ture.
-- All had issued forth in obedience to the mandate; that is, the girls, mamma, and Prince S. Lizabetha Prokofievna went off in a direction -exactly contrary to the usual one, and all understood very well what she was driving at, but held their peace, fearing to ir-ritate the good lady.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, however, I will give way in spite of my displeasure; furthermore let me tell you, and I mean what I say if contrary to the desire of myself, Minerva driver of the spoil, Juno, Mercury, and King Vul-can, Jove spares steep Ilius, and will not let the Achaeans have the great triumph of sacking it, let him understand that he will incur our implacable resentment.'
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：
-- Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wantonness of their success they had respected, not only the persons of the trembling sisters, but his own.
-- 'Uncas was bold enough to say, that the beasts ridden by the gentle ones,' continued Hawkeye, glancing his eyes, not without curious interest, on the fillies of the ladies, 'planted the legs of one side on the ground at the same time, which is contrary to the movements of all trotting four-footed animals of my knowledge, except the bear.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ichabod, whose fears increased with the delay, jerked the reins on the other side, and kicked lustily with the contrary foot: it was all in vain; his steed started, it is true, but it was only to plunge to the opposite side of the road into a thicket of brambles and alder-bushes.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours.
-- I racked my brain, but could in no way account for an action so contrary to my conception of him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Contrary to what might have been supposed, the diameter of the passage increased as the explorers proceeded, so that they very soon were able to stand upright.
-- "In fact, the contrary would be very astonishing," said Herbert.
-- Neither the weapons nor the instruments, contrary to the usual custom, bore the name of the maker; they were, besides, in a perfect state, and did not appear to have been used.
-- It was not only that they were extremely anxious to find out the cause of what had happened, whether it was the result of an accident which would be discovered at the return of day, or whether on the contrary it was the work of a human being; but they also had very uncomfortable beds.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was agreeable to feel the power of authority over so vast an estate, and it was disagreeable, because in his youth he was an enthusiastic adherent of Herbert Spencer, and being himself a large land owner, was struck by the proposition in Social Statics that private ownership of land is contrary to the dictates of justice.
-- With the frankness and boldness of youth, he not only then spoke of the injustice of private ownership of land; not only did he compose theses in the university on the subject, but he actually distributed among the peasants the few hundred acres of land left him by his father, not desiring to own land contrary to his convictions.
-- The indictment wound up as follows: "In view of the aforesaid the defendants, Simon Kartinkin, peasant of the village of Borkoff, thirty- three years of age; burgess Euphemia Ivanova Bochkova, forty-two years of age, and burgess Katherine Maslova, twenty-seven years of age, conspired on the 17th day of January, 188-, to administer poison to merchant Smelkoff with intent to kill and rob him, and did on said day administer to said Smelkoff poison, from which poison the said Smelkoff died, and did thereafter rob him of a diamond ring and twenty-five hundred rubles, contrary to the laws in such cases made and provided.
-- In his closing words the justiciary, contrary to the positive requirements of section 1, chapter 801 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, failed to explain to the jury of what legal elements the theory of guilt consisted; nor did he tell them that if they found that Maslova gave the poison to Smelkoff, but without intent to kill, they had the power to discharge her.'
-- said the inspector, evidently finding Nekhludoff's conversation with the boy contrary to the law.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps of the land he was approaching, and which he found too near to him, contrary to the Canadian's opinion, who thought it too far off.
-- But in our time, steamers running between Suez and the South Seas have nothing more to fear from the fury of this gulf, in spite of contrary trade-winds.
-- Then, contrary to his custom, he ordered both panels to be opened, and, going from one to the other, observed the mass of waters attentively.
-- But, contrary to my expectations, the Nautilus took a decided retrograde motion.
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