Usage examples of "en sentido contrario" in Spanish with translation to English

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Por error monté un tren que iba en sentido contrario. By mistake I boarded a train going in the opposite direction.
Por error cogí un tren que iba en sentido contrario. By mistake I boarded a train going in the opposite direction.
En sentido estricto, su respuesta es incorrecta. Strictly speaking, his answer is not correct.
Esto es, en sentido estricto, un error. This is, strictly speaking, a mistake.
Mary no es pobre. Al contrario, es bastante rica. Mary is not poor. On the contrary, she is quite rich.
Los Estados Unidos jamás le declararon la guerra a Hitler. Fue en el otro sentido. The USA never declared war on Hitler. It was the other way.
Tú eres joven. Yo, por el contrario, soy muy vieja. You are young. I, on the contrary, am very old.
Su explicación del problema no tenía sentido. Her explanation of the problem made no sense.
Dices algo y luego haces justo lo contrario. You say one thing and then act just the opposite.
Eso no tiene sentido en lo absoluto. That makes no sense at all.
Las lenguas no deberían utilizarse, porque eso adulteraría su belleza. Por el contrario, tendrían que ser congeladas criogénicamente y observadas en silencio. Languages should not be used, for that would adulterate their beauty. Rather, they should be cryogenically frozen and observed in silence.
Es una lástima que Mary no tenga sentido del humor. It's a pity that Mary has no sense of humor.
Él no es vago, al contrario, pienso que trabaja duro. He's not lazy. On the contrary, I think he's a hard worker.
No cabe duda de que la verdad es más extraña que la ficción. La ficción tiene que tener sentido. It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Y sin embargo, también lo contrario es siempre verdadero. And yet, the contrary is always true as well.
Tom tiene un extraño sentido del humor. Tom has a strange sense of humor.
Tú eres joven. Yo, por el contrario, soy muy viejo. You are young. I, on the contrary, am very old.
La gente es muy materialista estos días, en el sentido vulgar, más que en el filosófico, de la palabra. People are too materialistic these days, in the vulgar, rather than the philosophical sense of the word.
No tengo ninguna prueba de lo contrario. I have no proof to the contrary.
Deberíamos apelar al sentido común en vez de recurrir a la violencia. We should appeal to reason instead of resorting to violence.
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