oxymoron and paradox

oxymoron矛盾修饰法and paradox隽语/悖论

1)level

•Oxymoron: putting self-contradictory ideas in a phase. Bitter-sweet memories

•Paradox: putting self-contradictory ideas in the sentence. No news is good news.

2)relationship

In oxymoron, the two contradictory words are put together. One is used to modify the other.Parting is such sweet sorrow.

In paradox, there is no such a relationship. Deep hate comes from deep love.

Definition

A paradox is a figure of speech consisting of a statement or proposition which on the face of it seems self-contradictory, absurd or contrary to established fact or practice, but which on further thinking and study, may prove to be true, well-founded, and even to contain a succinct point.

隽语指前后两句话或同一句话的前后部分字面内容表面上自相矛盾，荒诞不经或有悖常理，不合逻辑，甚至是荒谬的，但仔细想来或进一步研究，实际上其中富有哲理，内涵深刻，意味深长，言奇意深。

Examples

Proverb Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.众人事，无人管。（三个和尚没水喝。）Cheapest is the dearest.最便宜的东西最贵。（便宜没好货）

No news is good news.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

More haste , less speed.

He who is full of himself is very empty.

Love is a sweet torment.

One man is no man.

Prose In fact, it appears that the teachers of English teach English so poorly largely because they teach grammar so well.

AD One of the fine things about owning it is selling it.拥有它的一件好事情就是出售它。Cambridge University – England

Also known as Cambridge University is located in the United Kingdom in the city of Cambridge. T he university is celebrating its 800th year. It is recognized as the second oldest university in the English-speaking world. Cambridge was first established in 1209 by academicians who had left Oxford.

It is the leading university in Europe when it comes to academics. They have also produced 88 N obel Prize winners. Cambridge is a public university. To date, they have an administrative staff of 8,614 and an enrollment of 18,396

students.

Among the notable alumni of Cambridge University include Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Francis Bacon, F rancis Crick and James D. Watson (DNA model), Oliver Cromwell, and Lord Alfred Tennyson just to name a few.

2 Harvard University – USA

Established by the legislature of Massachusetts in 1636, Harvard University is a private universit y in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is named after John Harvard, its first benefactor. Or iginally a college that trained clergy, the curriculum and the students became more secular duri

ng the eighteenth century. Not only is Harvard recognized as one of the oldest establishments f or higher learning, it also is the first corporation formed in the United States. At present, the ac ademic staff numbers 2,107; the administrative staff compose of 2,497 non-medical and 10,674 medical; their

student total population currently is at 21,125. Many of Harvard’s past graduates have included a handful of American presidents and political leaders: John Hancock, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and George W. Bush to name a few. In addition, many movie stars that graduated from Harvard: Jack Lemmon, Natalie Portma n, Matt Damon, and Tommy Lee Jones among them. Let Plato be your friend，and Aristotle，but more let your friend be Truth.‖意为―以柏拉图为友，以亚里士多德为友，更要以真理为友