What they wanted were two contradictory things.

他们想要的东西是互相矛盾的。

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.

实用的政治在于忽视事实， 但教育和政治是两种不同且经常相互矛盾的事物。

The Frogs is a contradictory thing: it is a comedy that defends tragedy.

青蛙是一个矛盾的东西：它是一部为悲剧辩护的喜剧。

Most prospects in life are marred by the shuffling worldly wisdom of men, who, forgetting that they cannot serve God and mammon, endeavour to blend contradictory things.

人生的大部分前途都被世人混乱的世俗智慧所破坏，他们忘记了自己不能事奉上帝和财神，努力将矛盾的事物混为一谈。

The answer is a neverending series of reactions that are dedicated to doing two vital, and totally contradictory, things: One set of chemical reactions destroys the reactants that you give them, reducing big, complex substances into molecular rubble.

答案是一系列无休止的反应，这些反应致力于做两件至关重要且完全矛盾的事情：一组化学反应会破坏你给它们的反应物，将大型复杂物质变成分子碎片。