六级Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.

教师和学生都经历了一个奇怪的悖论，即初学者通常对自己正在做的事情想得太少，因为他们对自己正在做的事情想得太多。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

费城德雷塞尔大学公共卫生教授迈克尔·尤德尔（Michael Yudell）说，现代遗传学研究正处于一个悖论中：一方面，种族被认为是阐明人类遗传多样性的有用工具，但另一方面，种族也被认为是多样性的一个定义不明确的标志。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Call it the "learning paradox", the more you struggle and even fail while you're trying to learn new information, the better you're likely to recall and apply that information later.

称之为“学习悖论”，当你试图学习新信息时，你越是挣扎甚至失败，你就越有可能在以后更好地回忆和应用这些信息。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close" an achievement gap based on social class, according to th

这造成了一个“悖论”，即招收第一代学生，但随后看着他们中的许多人失败，这意味着高等教育“继续复制和扩大，而不是缩小”基于社会阶层的成就差距

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

千禧一代似乎面临着这样一个悖论：他们是最不正式的一代，但最注重风格和个人品牌。

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级I hesitate to share his optimism because of paradox (矛盾的现象）we seem to exhibit, namely, that there are more avenues for us to entertain ourselves than ever before, yet we are more bored than ever before.

由于矛盾，我不愿与他分享乐观的态度(矛盾的现象）我们似乎表现出，也就是说，我们比以往任何时候都有更多的娱乐途径，但我们比以往更无聊。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of the Asian American Achievement Paradox, says misunderstanding between first-generation Asian-American parents and those who have been in this country longer are common.

加州大学欧文分校社会学教授、《亚裔美国人成就悖论》一书的作者Jennifer Lee表示，第一代亚裔美国人父母与在美国生活时间更长的人之间的误解很常见。

2018年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套)