英语释义

• witty language used to convey insults or scorn;

  "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"

  "irony is wasted on the stupid"

  "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Johathan Swift

• incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs;

  "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"

• a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

片语

ferrous[化学] 亚铁的；铁的，含铁的

verbal irony反语

Irony Big金属大表盘腕表

Irony Al带铁铜铝水箱

satire讽刺；讽刺文学，讽刺作品

hit打；打击；碰撞；偶然碰上

Socratic irony苏格拉底式反讽

Irony Medium别具诱惑力的金属中型

Structural irony结构性反讽

Without Irony不反语

dramatic irony（戏剧中人物未察觉但是观众可以领会的）戏剧性讽示（等于tragic irony）

Chinese irony反语

英汉例句

• he paused to let the irony of this sink in.

  他停顿一下，以便让大家领会其中的讽刺意味。

• they find only irony in the narrator「s concern.

  他们发现叙述者只是一味地嘲讽。

• in any case, the tension between denotation and connotation is part of the way in which irony works.

  在任何情况下，讽刺的作用,都是表达了符号和涵义之间的张力。

• there is both mad delight and infinite irony in the thought of my ashes scattered to the four winds, sown frenetically in space, an eternal reproach to the world.

  在我思想的灰烬中，同时存在一种疯狂的喜悦和一种无止尽的讽刺，而这被分割成四股风，在空间里散播，这是对于世界永恒的批判。

• this is a bitter irony at a time when the development community is committed to poverty reduction.

  在开发界致力于减少贫穷的时候，发生这样的事情是一种难堪的讽刺。

• the irony which i invoke is no cruel deity.

  我所祈求的讽刺并不是一个残酷的精灵。

• there is a great historical irony at the heart of the current transformation of news.

  在当前新闻转变发展方式的关键时刻有一个伟大的历史讽刺。

• the irony here is that spending time with oneself is exactly what you should be doing to lead a satisfying and fulfilling life.

  这里的反语是说花时间和自己在一起的确是你满足和充足自己的生活所必须做的.

• it」s a striking irony that to extract its plentiful uranium, namibia must use quantities of a very scarce resource: water.

  极其讽刺的是，为了提炼出存量丰富的铀矿，纳米比亚必须大量使用一种稀罕的资源——水。

• i was vexed when my father called dowden's irony timidity, but after many years his impression has not changed for he wrote to me but a few months ago, "it was like talking to a priest.

  父亲把道登的反讽称为懦弱，让我甚是气恼，但很多年后，他的看法也没有改变，因为就在几个月前，他在给我的信中写道：“这就像和神父对话一样。

• there’s nothing worse than a serious, sensitive ponytail guy or gal with no sense of irony or the absurd.

  没有什么比一个严肃、敏感的梳着马尾的男人，或是一个不会讽刺或嘲弄的姑娘更糟糕的了。

• perhaps the candidates fear the irony of extolling thrift as they spend with abandon to destroy one another.

  可能候选人担心讽刺他们在竞选上赞美节俭的花费会让他们彼此陷入绝境。

• but historians will also recognize the irony of this magnificent feat.

  然而，历史学家将认识到这件壮举背后的讽刺意味。

• the biggest irony is using the productivity system as an excuse to not do what they need to do.

  最大的讽刺是使用效率系统，而不能做到物尽其用，反倒成了不做事情的理由。

• her coarse irony was as painful as her anguish.

  她那粗俗的讽刺口气和她的痛苦心情,令人感到难受.

• there is a delicious irony in all this.

  这一切中包含了一种绝妙的讽刺。

• oh the irony that a machine must remind us of our humanity.

  需要一台机器来告诉我们和平的意义，这太讽刺了。

• that’s the irony of this.

  这是具有讽刺意味的。

• the irony is that for as fascinated as we are by extreme old age, and for as concerned as we claim to be about our health, most people choose unhealthy lifestyles.

  讽刺的是，我们虽然对长寿如此着迷，我们又宣称我们如何关心自己的健康，但是大多数人还是选择不健康的生活方式。

• i will show you how gracefully i can lay irony aside.

  我以后会让你看到我会怎样落落大方地将讽刺弃置不用.

• there is a cruel irony to all this.

  对所有这一切来说，还有一个残酷的反讽。

• some courts might want to address this irony by saying that the distributor must reserve this right and this ability - and thus must expose itself to a vicarious infringement claim.

  一些法庭可能会提出这个反语通过说发布者必须保留这个权利和能力—并且因而必须使它自己暴露于代理侵权诉讼。

• you give people a solution to a problem and the great irony to me is that even though they’re unhappy, they have high inertia.

  你给人们解决一个问题，那是对我是莫大的讽刺，尽管他们不高兴，他们具有较高的惯性。

• children can understand irony from the age of four, according to recent research in the british journal of developmental psychology.

  根据在英国发展心理学杂志最近的研究表明，孩子们从四岁起就可以理解讽刺。

• the irony of all this is that the pipeline is not nearly as important as either its defenders or critics make it out to be.

  对于这一切，讽刺的是，不管是支持者也好，批评者也罢，石油管道工程并没有他们说的那么重要。

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