ironic

It's ironic that we place so much value on a dollar bill, and yet we often minimize where true value is found.

我们那么重视一张只值一元的钞票，却往往贬低了有真正价值的东西，真是很讽刺。

The religious speak of morals, and yet isn't it ironic that they need guidelines on how to be a morally upright citizen from a book?

宗教的道德言论，他们竟然需要写在一本书上的方针来指导自己如何做一个道德正直的公民，这难道不讽刺吗？

But, like Fernandez, Ojeda's commitment to her family has the ironic consequence that she's not able to spend as much time with them.

然而就像费尔南德斯奥赫达对家里的承诺带来了讽刺性的后果：她不能经常与家人在一起。

The point is that his political opponents and many in the financial markets did not believe him and used "green shoots" as an ironic taunt.

关键是拉蒙特的政治对手以及金融市场中的许多人不相信他，并把“萌芽”当成了讽刺他的把柄。

I wondered if he was being ironic but his friend agreed with him, giving the sort of sigh that acknowledges a self-evident truth.

我疑心他是否在说反话，但是他朋友也与他意见一致，发出几声叹息等于默认了这是不言自明的事实。

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

每件事都是对我的讽刺。我总是觉得荒谬，歇斯底里，但我是唯一一个发现这点的人，除了很少的一些人。

One of the most ironic aspects of our putative "Age of Obama" is how little impact it has had on the nation's urban geography.

“奥巴马时代”最具讽刺意义的一面是他对于美国城市规划的影响力微乎其微。

It's ironic that this country which has such a traditional culture and superior qualities in culture now has reduced itself to this.

讽刺的是这个国家拥有如此悠久的文化传统和优良的文化品味，现在却将自身降低到如此程度。

It's ironic that just as the world is appreciating the strengths of China's education system, Chinese are waking up to its weaknesses.

真是讽刺啊，当这个世界在赞赏中国教育系统的优点时，中国人却清醒地看到它的弱点。

sounded at once like an ironic comment on celebrity excesses and a straight bit of autobiography.

听来立即让人觉得是对过多名气的讽刺评论和直接的一种自传。

Would be ironic if it was hit by space debris and destroyed because of their anti-satellite weapon test a while back. I would laugh.

如果那个太空站被他们的反卫星测试造成的太空垃圾击中并摧毁那就太讽刺了，我保证会笑得。

The novel "The Heart of a Dog" was the peak of his most representative works in Bulgakov's absurd and ironic ones in 1920s.

小说《狗心》是布尔加科夫在20年代荒诞讽刺作品最具代表性的顶峰之作。

The charmingly ironic point of vast reading, at least as I have come to understand it, is to distrust much of one's education.

有一点至少我自己已经渐渐悟到了：博览群书会让人强烈怀疑自己受过的教育――这可真是绝妙的讽刺啊！

He sounded as if he was being a little ironic, but maybe it was being just the tone of voice and the choice of words.

他的话听来有点挖苦的味道，但也许那只是语调和遣词造句的习惯。

I'm looking for someone to illustrate a food label with a classical old style cute and ironic drawing of a girl and a wolf.

我在找别人来说明旧有古典风格的食品标签和讽刺可爱的少女和狼绘图。

The title of Robert Stone's new collection of stories, "Fun With Problems, " is clearly meant to be read in an ironic sort of way.

罗伯特·斯东的新小说集——随着问题找乐子——很显然要用讽刺的方法去读。

Isn't it just a little ironic to see a group of pro-lifers throwing eggs at an abortion clinic?

那些反堕胎人士朝人流诊所砸鸡蛋是不是有点挖苦？

Only the ironic voice insisted yet once more that he rise from that filthy floor if he did not want to become like all the other niggers.

唯有那个讥讽的声音又一次在敦促他，如果他不想成为和所有其它黑人一样的人，他就应当从那污秽的地板上站起来。

He would find it ironic that I see him as a mentor as, after working with him, I quit law.

对于我将他视为导师，他可能会觉得有点讽刺，因为在与他共事后，我离开了律师行业。

And I hate to be so ironic and sarcastic about it but it's the truth.

我不想讽刺什么，但这是事实。