irony

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！