1. Paradoxically, the less you have to do the more you may resent the work that does come your way. 自相矛盾的是，你要做的事情越少，就越是对突然落在你身上的工作不满。
2. Consequently—and paradoxically—laws introduced to protect the jobs of ordinary workers may be placing those jobs at risk. 这就导致了自相矛盾的结果，为保护普通劳动者的工作而出台的法律可能会使这些岗位面临风险。
3. These successes paradoxically obscure the tremendous human costs of historically accumulated disadvantage that remain central to black Americans' lives. 这些成功却自相矛盾地掩盖了历史上积累的不利因素所造成的巨大人力成本，而这些不利因素仍然是美国黑人生活的核心。
4. Paradoxically, the less she ate, the fatter she got. 很矛盾的是，她吃得越少，就变得越胖。
5. Boredom has, paradoxically, become quite interesting to academics lately. 矛盾的是，最近学者们对无聊变得相当感兴趣。
