The
contradictions are becoming increasingly acute.
矛盾日益尖锐.
To deny contradiction is to deny everything.
否认事物的矛盾就是否认了一切。
I don't care about any contradiction.
我不在意任何人的反驳。
The contradiction was only apparent.
那矛盾只是表面上的。
She said she was tired, yet she stayed up all night watching TV.
她说她累了，但她整晚都在看电视。
He claims to be a vegetarian, but he always orders a steak when we go out to eat.
他说他是素食者，但我们外出吃饭时他总是点牛排。
The sign says 'No Smoking', but people are still smoking inside the building.
牌子上写着“禁止吸烟”，但人们仍在大楼内抽烟。
The weather forecast predicted sunshine, but it's raining heavily outside.
天气预报说会是晴天，但外面下着大雨。
The politician promised to reduce taxes, but he increased them instead.
这位政治家承诺要减税，但他反而提高了税率。
The book is titled 'Peace and Harmony', but its content promotes violence.
这本书名为“和平与和谐”，但其内容却在提倡暴力。
She said she didn't care about the result, but she was visibly upset when she lost.
她说不在乎结果，但输掉时她明显很沮丧。
The company claims to be environmentally friendly, but they continue to use non-renewable resources.
公司声称对环境友好，但他们继续使用非可再生资源。
He said he was allergic to cats, but he has two cats at home.
他说他对猫过敏，但他在家里养了两只猫。
The advertisement boasts about the product's durability, but many customers have reported it breaking easily.
广告吹嘘产品的耐用性，但许多顾客反映它很容易坏。
"In the contradiction between high energy consumption and dual-carbon sustainable growth, how to help data centers meet increasingly stringent energy efficiency management metrics and reach sustainability goals has become urgent challenges for businesses," said Sharma, who is also the group's head of the secure power division and data center business, noting that Schneider Electric will continue to increase investment in innovation to seize more market share in China.
Sharma表示：“在高能耗和双碳可持续增长之间的矛盾中，如何帮助数据中心满足日益严格的能效管理指标并实现可持续发展目标，已成为企业面临的紧迫挑战，注意到施耐德电气将继续加大对创新的投资，以在中国抢占更多的市场份额。
"There might be a certain contradiction between easy-to-use and reliability.
“易用性和可靠性之间可能存在一定的矛盾。
Wu Gangliang, a researcher at the China Enterprise Reform and Development Society, said: "For SMEs, there is no contradiction between ensuring one's survival and fulfilling social responsibilities.
First, the country should strengthen coordination and cooperation in optimizing the policy system, focusing on the key contradictions and adequately grasping the rhythm and strength.
Liu Ruisheng, an associate researcher with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), said there is no contradiction between emphasizing security and protecting privacy.
In line with China's vision to build a great nation that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful, one of the prominent challenges is to address the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development, and the people's ever-growing need for a better life.
Weinand said that this aligns with the Chinese government's mission to tackle the current principal contradiction faced by the Chinese people, which is the tension between "unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life".
In reaching these targets, the country will address the principal contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development, and the people's ever-growing need for a better life.
As contradictions between production and the market increased, the only way out was to open up a new path by ourselves.
Long-term constraints on the global economy include structural contradictions and huge levels of government debt, which make it challenging to escape from high volatility and low growth.
长期制约全球经济的因素包括结构性矛盾以及庞大的政府债务，这使得全球经济难以摆脱高波动性和低增长的局面。
Behind these changes are structural contradictions that have been accumulating for years and are still unfolding.
"Although the contradiction between fiscal revenue and expenditure will still be prominent in 2023, we will not step back on expenditure on people's livelihoods.
Cheng Shi, chief economist at ICBC International, said this integration has become necessary for boosting domestic demand because the principal contradiction facing Chinese society has transformed into one between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing need for a better life.
As we can see, the way to overcome the issues, inconsistencies and contradictions involved in the above two theories is to achieve an effective integration of the two.
In the new era, the principal contradiction facing Chinese society is that between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing need for a better quality of life, Mu said.
In the new era, the principal contradiction facing Chinese society has transformed into that between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better quality of life, meaning that problems met in the course of development are more reflected in the quality of development, Mu said at a news conference on Monday.
"At present, there are still some prominent contradictions and problems in China's economic operation," Yuan Da, director of the Department of National Economy of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a press conference, adding that the quick recovery during the past seven months shows the economy's strong resilience and huge potential.
Policymakers at Thursday's meeting said the nation must maintain its strategic orientation and remain unwavering in running its own affairs well as it faces some stark contradictions and problems in the economy.
Contradictions between land resource supply and demand are becoming increasingly prominent, along with the development of the Hainan Free Trade Port, which is expected to become a focus showcasing China's economic reform and opening-up, said Wang Xuehao, an official with the Hainan provincial department of natural resources and planning.
The administration said it will closely monitor changes in the market and continue to use national reserves to relieve the contradiction between supply and demand of metals.
Li Hui, deputy director of the Department of National Economy of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the commission will closely monitor changes in the market and release more national reserves to relieve the contradiction between supply and demand of metals and guide the commodity prices to return to a normal range.
The current structural contradiction between overcapacity of low-end goods and a supply shortage of high-end products in China's petrochemical industry has yet to be fundamentally reversed, especially in the fields of high-end synthetic materials, functional materials, medical materials and high-end electronic chemicals, he said.
"China's independent development is not in contradiction with the international industrial and supply-chain cooperation," he said.
However, he noted forthcoming challenges such as the global spread of the virus, uncertainties in the external environment, pressure from virus control at home, as well as structural contradictions in the domestic economy.
The principal contradiction facing the Chinese economy for the current and future periods is that the supply-side structure does not adapt to changes in the demand-side structure.
Although the principal contradiction of economic operation still lies in the supply side, we should also place great importance on demand-side management, whose strategic basis is the expansion of domestic demand.
It has significantly improved the electrification level of the whole society, providing a fundamental solution to address the long-term contradiction between development and emission reductions faced by countries worldwide, Lin said.
The train service, operated by SCODA, has been offered once every month, alleviating the contradiction between strong export demand and insufficient international transport capacity.
Overall, there are structural contradictions between unmatched supply and demand in the LNG carriers market, the newspaper said.
Liu said GEI provides fundamental solutions to address the long-term contradiction between development and emission reduction faced by countries worldwide.
刘说，GEI为解决世界各国面临的长期发展与减排之间的矛盾提供了根本性解决方案。
"The signing of the second one will remove the contradiction between the bilateral air services agreements signed by China and EU member states and EU law, and will provide legal certainty for the operation of air carriers from both sides," said Feng.
In addition, we need to solve the contradiction between traditional regulatory methods and innovative development requirements, and introduce new supervision mechanism.
Wang Lijie, retired president with the School of Management of China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, said such measures also provide an alternative to deal with the probable contradictions between mining rights of CBM and coal, because the two resources often co-exist.
The principle contradiction facing Chinese society has evolved into the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development, and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life.
"More automobile imports will also help resolve the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for better lives," Liang said.
Different from other age groups, the Gen Z are "smart" but, in a curious, seeming contradiction, "impulsive" as well.
Being an astute consumer and an impulsive buyer may appear contradictory, but the contradiction is seeming than real as it reflects the Gen Z's flexible on-demand consumption attitude.
It's a classic contradiction of public versus personal interests: how can authorities slow the spread of coronavirus while protecting patient privacy?
"Chen Zhaohui, head of the Haidian sub-office of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources, said high-quality community construction and high-tech development are just like the dual aspects of a Tai Chi diagram, representing unity rather than a contradiction.
"The challenge of acquiring 5G sites and the growing 5G network density represent a key contradiction that affects large-scale 5G deployment," said Qiu Zheng, vice-president of site domain at Huawei's wireless product line.
First, the unclear relationship and boundary between the government and the market have continuously expanded the government's bottom line responsibilities, which create a contradiction between limited financial resources and unlimited expenditure, leading to financial difficulties.
The "tightening balance" in China's fiscal situation is rooted in the contradiction between limited fiscal resources and unlimited fiscal expenditure responsibilities, which to some extent is due to the increasingly unclear boundary between the government and the market, or the expanding responsibilities of the government, as reflected by fiscal activities to defuse economic and social risks.
Attendees at the conference also stressed that various contradictions and problems in the financial sector are deeply intertwined, some of which are still highly prominent.
As a result, the entire world can benefit from the dividends of incremental growth, effectively concealing the inherent contradictions of global external imbalances.
Currently, China's economy is in a process of recovery, and the main contradiction is still insufficient effective demand.
As the 2022 US midterm elections approach, US Democrats may again target China to divert attention from their internal contradictions and mobilize public support.
However, much work remains to be done to achieve inclusive financing, Guo said, citing the contradiction between insufficient supply and mounting demand in the country's financial sector.
Behind the proposed act is the contradiction between China's need to safeguard its sovereignty of securities inspection and the US administration's need to protect investor rights, Liu said, adding that the recent reporting scandal of Luckin Coffee Inc was a catalyst for the bill.
The decentralized feature of blockchain is a contradiction to the central bank's management system.
For a long time, contradictions and problems in the management of State-owned financial capital, such as the decentralization of responsibilities and unclear rights and responsibilities, have lowered the efficiency of capital allocation, experts said.
Another reason was the contradiction between supply and demand, Liu added.
The contradiction between media reports and bank statements showed the existing home loan policies require coordination in accordance with central government's guideline for eliminating speculation.
Excessively high debt could bring operation risks, Zhou said, adding that if the debt ratio of SOEs continue to rise, it could accumulate more contradictions and problems for China's social and economic development.
"In-depth contradictions and problems could emerge as the economic rebalancing process goes forward, especially for dealing with the debt, which requires further opening-up and continual reform," Wang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said on Monday.
The two sides will take a "foresighted" and "constructive" approach to deal with the problems and contradictions that have arisen from the rapidly developing Sino-US economic relations through expanding bilateral economic cooperation, Zhu cited Xi as saying.
"While fully affirming economic performance, we must at the same time clearly recognize the many problems and contradictions in the economy," the meeting statement said.
Efforts should be made to alleviate structural contradictions related to employment and guide universities to adjust and optimize their majors, he said.
Jiang Bixin, also a vice-president of the China Law Society, said that the legal community in China needs to address "structural and supply-side contradictions" in the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics.
Inspectors will be dedicated to inspecting whether the Party organization adheres to the Party's overall leadership and fulfills the principal responsibility of exercising full and rigorous governance of the Party, in order to identify major contradictions and prominent problems that impede high-quality development.
During the inspections, efforts will be dedicated to finding principal contradictions and prominent issues hindering the high-quality development of central SOEs, solving prominent problems in the financial sector, and tackling corruption and deep institutional problems in sports.
He Yun'ao said there is no contradiction between protection and exploitation.