1·The payment of tribute they held to be contrary to the law of God.
他们认为纳税是背离上帝的律法的。
2·A miracle is said to be contrary to nature when the effect produced is contrary to the natural course of things.
一个奇迹据说是相反的性质时，产生的效果是违反自然的事情。
3·If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.
如果本使用条款的任何规定被有管辖权的法院视为违背法律，则本使用条款的其余规定仍然充分有效。
4·Unemployment seems to be rising, despite repeated assurances to the contrary.
尽管反复担保减少失业，失业率看来却在上升。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·On the contrary, compelling tourists to make a financial contribution to the places they visit beyond their personal consumption should be part of a wider cultural shift.
相反，除了个人消费之外，迫使游客为他们游览的地方做出经济贡献，应该是更广泛的文化转变的一部分。
6·Brown said he was by no means annoyed; on the contrary he was glad to be able to make himself clearly understood.
布朗说他一点都不恼火。相反，他很高兴能被人理解。
7·And for a contrary reason, how disagreeable does he appear to be, whose hard and obdurate heart feels for himself only, but is altogether insensible to the happiness or misery of others!
相反，一个冷酷无情自私，对于别人的幸福或者不幸都完全熟视无睹的人，会是多么让人扫兴啊。
8·The citizen, legal person or entity without legal personality whose name is indicated on a work shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be deemed to be the author of the work.
如无相反证明，在作品上署名的公民、法人或者非法人单位为作者。
9·Word processor formats are proprietary, and conversion between formats tends to be imperfect and troublesome (and such formats bind one to proprietary tools, contrary to an open source spirit).
文字处理程序格式都是专用的，在格式之间转换总不能尽如人意，也很麻烦(而且每种格式都会各自将文档绑定到不同的专用工具，这种情况又与开放源码的精神相违背)。
10·We can't be everywhere at once, and contrary to popular believe, you cannot always do everything you want to do.
我们不能一次出现在所有地方，而且，(与大众的期待相反)我们不能做完所有自己想做的事。