be at cross purposes的用法和樣例：
例句
- A couple of rams are butting at each other.
兩只羊正在用角互相抵觸。 - I would inwardly struggle at the unwanted attention.
我從心里對這些多余的注意力有極大的抵觸。 - Dousing the ethnic flames will be difficult.
要澆熄民族矛盾的火焰并非易事。 - Logically, it is true, no thing could be more inconsistent.
從邏輯上講，真的沒有比這種事情更矛盾的了。
