cross-purposes

cross-purposes

美 　英

• na.相反的目的[意志,計劃]；(一種滑稽游戲)答非所問
• 網絡目的相反；各懷鬼胎；話不投機

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英漢雙解

英漢解釋

例句

We seem to be at cross-purposes. I want to ask you to dinner tomorrow, not your boss.

看來我們是相互誤會了：我是想請像明天來赴宴，而不是要請你的老板。

To help deal with that, a number of grouped organizers meet once a week to make sure they are not at cross-purposes.

要想幫助解決這個問題，小組的一些組織者們要每星期碰面一次，以確保他們之間不會相互誤解。

You must see to it that the objectives of the company and theobjectives of your team members are not at cross-purposes.

你也必須認識到，公司的目標和你團隊成員的目標是不能相左的。

With such a taboo in place, innovators tend to solve their problems quietly and unilaterally, often working at cross-purposes.

有了這樣一個禁區存在，創新者們傾向于悄悄地、片面地解決問題，而且常常帶有相互矛盾的目的。

Don't be belligerent or appear to be working at cross purposes with the company, she says.

她說，不要表現出敵對情緒，不要讓人覺得你與公司離心離德。

We were talking at cross-purposes: I wanted to know the company's plans for next year, and he thought I wanted to change those plans.

我們彼此誤解了。我想了解該公司明年的計劃，而他認為我要改變那些計劃。

I get your drift now, I think. If you mean by "integrity" , what I would call "consistency" then we've been arguing at cross-purposes.

我想現在我明白你的意思了。如果你所說的“正直”就是我所說的“一貫性”，那么我們剛才的爭吵就是彼此誤解了。

Acreage controls and input subsidies work at cross purposes, each increases the cost of the other .

耕種面積控制和投入補貼的作用背道而馳，每一方的作用都增加了對方的代價。

At many technology companies, various divisions often work at cross purposes, competing with one other to develop related products.

在許多科技公司，各個分支都存在意見分歧，大家互相競爭以發展相關產品。

Albert 's opinion is always at cross purposes with Jim 's .

艾爾伯特的意見總是和吉姆的相反。

The goal was to avoid duplicating efforts or working at cross purposes.

目標是避免重復勞動或是工作目的不一。

They must prevent governments' policies from acting at cross-purposes, of which exchange-rate policies are a good current example.

他們必須防止政府的政策彼此相左——當前一個很好的例子就是外匯政策。

The agencies often worked at cross purposes, sometimes unwittingly.

這兩個機構經常在同一個領域中有意或無意的同時開展工作。

Second, he suggested that the good things of modernity often operated at cross-purposes.

第二點，他認為現代化的好處在操作上常常會引發沖突。

"But at the same time the authorities want higher capital. Those aspirations are absolutely running at cross-purposes. "

“但與此同時，各國當局又想提高資本要求。這些想法絕對是相互矛盾的。”

To make sure we are working together, not at cross purposes.

這樣才能確保我們共同努力，而不是各奔東西。

The salesmen were working at cross purposes with their supervisor.

售貨員與他們負責人的意見南轅北轍。

Rhett Butler: It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it?

巴特勒：好像我們相互誤解，不是嗎？

As a result, what they do in their own jobs may be at cross- purposes with someone else'sjob.

因此，他們在自己的工作中所做的事情可能與別人的工作目標交叉彼此誤解。

The problem puts us at cross purposes with them.

這個問題使我們與他們之間產生了矛盾。

They can become bothered when they see others working at cross purposes, especially when conflict is overt.

當他們看到別人在觀點分歧、特別是沖突明顯的情況下工作，他們就會變得困擾。

The bad news is that the principals are still at cross-purposes.

壞消息是主要方面仍各有心思。