at cross-purposes

/kraws-pur-puhs, kros-/US // ˈkrɔsˈpɜr pəs, ˈkrɒs- //

矛盾冲突,矛盾,矛盾重重,对立面

Definitions

n.名词 noun

as inopposed/opposing

Synonyms

The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.
If they were meaningful, we might have realized it before—surely one of these kids wore a cross, or a yarmulke, or a hijab?
By setting no goals, the player must find their own purpose.
They were born in 51 countries and speak 59 foreign languages, but they seemed bound by a single purpose and resolve.
The reason: activist government and unionized government often work at cross purposes.
Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.
I called out several times, as loud as I could raise my voice, but all to no purpose.
In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
The emperor Nicholas of Russia declared, by ukase, his purpose to assist Austria.
I cannot believe that God would think it necessary to come on earth as a man, and die on the Cross.

/kraws-pur-puhs, kros-/US // ˈkrɔsˈpɜr pəs, ˈkrɒs- //

矛盾冲突,矛盾,矛盾重重,对立面

n.名词 noun

as inopposed/opposing

Synonyms

The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.
If they were meaningful, we might have realized it before—surely one of these kids wore a cross, or a yarmulke, or a hijab?
By setting no goals, the player must find their own purpose.
They were born in 51 countries and speak 59 foreign languages, but they seemed bound by a single purpose and resolve.
The reason: activist government and unionized government often work at cross purposes.
Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.
I called out several times, as loud as I could raise my voice, but all to no purpose.
In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
The emperor Nicholas of Russia declared, by ukase, his purpose to assist Austria.
I cannot believe that God would think it necessary to come on earth as a man, and die on the Cross.