Oxymoron as a contradiction in terms didn't show up until 1902 when someone who worked hard at being lazy was said to be a living oxymoron.
The second half of oxymoron is -moron and yes, it really does mean "stupid" in Greek.
Before that oxymoron was a technical term describing a rhetorical device.
oxymoron的第二部分是-moron，没错，在希腊语中意为“愚蠢的”。
The author deals with following five kinds of figures of speech such as zeugma, transferred epithet, oxymoron, analogy and pun appeared in First Certificate in English Course.
在此之前，oxymoron是一个技术术语，用来描述一种夸张的装置。
