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

矛盾是，当央行信誓旦旦地承定资产价格时，他们通常不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.

如果你认为这是不可能，我不知道你不辞辛劳地跑到这么远地方来听这与本小姐说法相矛盾。

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》一篇文章中解释了当我们不努力时，最佳表现状态（也称为“区域”）是如何矛盾地出现。

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，对于开明时代来说，粗鲁忏悔是不可能，而且大罪与对松饼胃口并不矛盾。

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， 有一种倾向是不分青红皂白地认为两种观点其实并不那么矛盾，或者认为在两人之间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“找不见”。这个表达并不像听起来那么矛盾。例如，我从来没有失踪过，因为我一个众所周知习惯是不加解释地离开小溪。