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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Contrary \Con"tra*ry\, n.; pl. {Contraries}.
1. A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.
No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a
knave. --Shak.
2. An opponent; an enemy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
3. the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition
incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather
show the contrary. See {Converse}, n., 1. --Locke.
4. (Logic) See {Contraries}.
{On the contrary}, in opposition; on the other hand. --Swift.
{To the contrary}, to an opposite purpose or intent; on the
other side. ``They did it, not for want of instruction to
the contrary.'' --Bp. Stillingfleet.
资料来源 : WordNet®
on the contrary
adv : contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the
contrary, he went out with his friends" [syn: {contrarily},
{to the contrary}, {contrariwise}]