irony

irony

美 [ˈaɪrəni] 　英 ['aɪrəni]

• n.反语；反话；（出乎意料的）奇异可笑之处；有讽刺意味的情况
• adj.铁的；铁似的；含铁的
• 网络反讽；讽刺之事；讽剌

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These times make it especially necessary to be in touch with the absurdity, the ridiculous, the funniness, and the irony of the everyday.

这些时候使得与日常的荒谬、好笑、滑稽和讽刺相联系特别有必要。

Many student protesters called Mr. Lee authoritarian and the president appeared to have understood the irony.

一些学生反对者称李先生为独裁者这位总统似乎明白讽刺中的含义

I sat down on the bench outside the theater door and tried very hard not to think of the irony.

我坐在影厅外的长凳上，极力不去想那讽刺的画面。

Furthermore, Shia-led government that the American props up in Baghdad thinks of Iran as its best foreign friend. it's irony of ironies.

而美国人所支持的什叶派，他们最好的外国朋友却是伊朗--美国的死敌，真是讽刺之至。

And yet, as the Kauffman Foundation rolls on, with its vast cash pile, I cannot help chuckling at the irony of all this.

不过，随着拥有重金的考夫曼基金会继续发展，整件事中蕴含的讽刺意味还是让我忍不住发笑。

Still, irony has no place in antitrust doctrine.

但是即使有些讽刺意味，在反垄断主义中也是没有用武之地的。

What an irony that a developed nation like the US is now a raw material supplier to what was only recently a developing nation.

一个像美国这样的发达国家居然成为仅仅最近还是发展中国家的原材料供应国，这是多么讽刺啊！

Mr. Naimi sees no irony in all this because in Qatari terms, his weight and his choice of a relative as a spouse are the norm, he said.

纳伊米先生并不觉得整件事有讽刺意味，因为据他说，在卡塔尔人看来，他的体重和他对伴侣的选择都是符合社会准则的。

It would be a nice irony if the best hedge against a collapse of the post-industrial economy turned out to be a return to the agrarian past.

如果事实真的证明回到农耕文明才是对抗后工业经济崩溃的最佳手段时，那真是一个绝妙的讽刺。

The irony that the roots of the crisis lie in housing markets, where turnover costs are high, is often lost on the tax's proponents.

具有讽刺意味的是，托宾税的支持者往往没有意识到此次金融危机正是始于交易成本较高的房产市场。

So there's a bit of a nice irony here that Hume who all these philosophers in this period is probably most opposed to Descartes.

这里具有讽刺意味的是，休谟以及那个时代所有的哲人们，几乎都反对笛卡尔的观点。

A game without end, in which the signs participate spontaneously, as if from a continuous sense of irony.

一个没有终点的游戏，在这里面，所有的标志、迹象都自发的参与进去，就好像来自于一个持续不断的讽刺的感觉。

She also noted the irony that Crosby's call for discipline appeared to have been leaked to the media beforehand.

她说，很讽刺的是，克罗斯比呼吁议员们不要抱怨一事已提前被媒体获悉。

It seems an irony that you have to drive around one of the oil rich countries of the world trying to find petrol.

这似乎是讽刺，你要驾驶围绕石油之一试图寻找汽油世界富国。

Irony is often shown in derogatory sense, which is of help learners of Japanese to recognize irony when communicating with native speakers.

反语的表现特征，是内含的意思经常为贬义。这种特征为我们在用日语和日语母语者进行交流的时候，识别反语发话发挥了启示作用。

But no matter how much irony we cake it in, the L-word grinds the ears of many people over the age of 25.

但是不管我们说得多么讽刺，这个以L开头的词仍会划过很多25岁年轻人的耳畔。

He once had sex with a girl on her boss's desk, who was a raging feminist, just for the irony of the act.

他有一次跟一个女孩在她老板的办公桌上作爱，而她则是个激烈的女权主义者，我提这个只是为了映照出其行为的讽刺意味。

The irony is that China is discovering the romance of the road just as Westerners seem to have lost it.

具有讽刺意味的是，中国发现道路的浪漫之时，西方人似乎正失去这种感觉。

The exquisite irony is that this was supposed to have been a good week for Mr Murdoch.

极具讽刺意味的一点是，对于默多克而言，过去的一周本应是美好的一周。

The irony is that the wise man wrote down his observation as if it were something new!

讽刺的是，这位智者仍然慎重其事地写出自己的观察与感想，彷佛里头确实有著丝毫新意！

I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that Negroes led so passional an existence.

我往往寻思，有些人以为黑人的生活热情洋溢，哪晓得这叫人啼笑皆非。

The irony is that Greece is in a position similar to that of Germany in the early 1930s, where cutting costs makes the debt load heavier.

讽刺的是，希腊当前处境，竟与30年代初的德国相类似。在这种处境下，削减成本将加重债务负担。

As he talks, he recognises the irony of the story and his melancholic face breaks into a quick laugh.

他说着，意识到这太讽刺，忧郁的脸上泛过一丝尴尬的笑容。

And the editorial called it a "bitter irony" that Xintai had been held up as a model city for reducing its number of petitioners .

社论将此事称为一个“辛辣的讽刺”，因为新泰曾因上访人数下降而被评为模范城市。

The results are fascinating, alternately rife with political irony and revealing of a Chinese reality not always apparent to outsiders.

评选结果极具吸引力，政治讽喻与揭示中国现实的词语交替流行，对外人来说并不是那么明显。

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.

关于所有这一切，讽刺的是，无论支持者还是反对者，铺设管道的意义远没有他们想要表现出的那般重要。

That would yield a fine irony: China's government spreading its line using the technology of a company it has battled over censorship.

那样的话，就会形成一个绝妙的讽刺：中国政府曾在审查问题上与谷歌不和，但它又在利用这家公司的技术来扩大自己的影响力。

Clearly, the hard rock community in the States knows who you are, so any anonymity among the general public there has to be a strange irony.

很明显，这个国家的摇滚界都知道您是谁，所以如果说普通大众不知道您，这才是一个很诡异的讽刺。

It is a cruel irony that the euro could be felled by an Italian trying too hard to be a German.

对于有可能被危机打倒的欧元而言，一个意大利人尽力以一个德国人的方式去采取措施，是一个很残忍的讽刺。

eg. The great irony was that despite all his explanations nobody believed him.

最具讽刺意味的是，尽管他竭力解释，可没一个人相信他。

It is the last sad irony of Herb Clutter that just a few years after his own violent death, his way of life died too.

赫伯·克拉特最后一个悲伤的讽刺是，在他被杀害而死之后，他的生活方式也随他而去了。

There is, though, an irony: the new powers with which Europe must now compete have never been much convinced by the Union's postmodernism.

不过，有一件事颇具讽刺意味：现在欧洲必须与之竞争的新兴大国，从未被欧盟的后现代主义说服。

Of course, the irony was that I immediately retired to my study to look them up on Google.

当然喽，具有讽刺意味的是，我立刻动身到书房去动用谷歌来查。

Seeram said the irony of finding a potential anti-diabetes compound in a sweetener is not lost on him.

Seeram说从一种甜料中发现具抗糖尿病潜力的化合物总让他觉得不可思议。

His speech of defence was more like an irony or even an insult to China.

在法庭上他的辩护词更像是对中国的讽刺甚至侮辱。

Her aunt made it a matter of high but easy irony , or comedy .

她的姨母把尖锐而轻松的讽刺或嘲笑赋予了这个概念。

The irony was that the senior master treated me like a reborn young master who he wished would stay.

具有讽刺意味的是，高级船长对待我像一个新生的年轻硕士的人，他想会留下来。

But as Nemeroff points out, there is a certain irony to this position, at least when viewed from the perspective of a water engineer.

但是，如内梅萝芙指出的，这种状况有一定的讽刺意味，至少当你从水务工程的角度来看。

She looked at me square in the eye, without a trace of irony and stated, "I have no time for an intern. "

她直视着我的眼睛，不含一丝嘲讽地表明：“我可没有时间去应付实习生。”

if taken to a harsh extreme Verbal Irony You are a fine goalkeeper, allowing the other side to score six goals.

你不愧是个出色的守门员，让对方进了六个球。

But to fully grasp the geniality of Nielsen's design, one needs to understand the Danish sense of humour and subtle irony.

但要充分把握尼尔森的设计和蔼，我们需要了解和微妙的讽刺幽默丹麦的感觉。