Irony
['aɪrənɪ] or ['aɪrəni]
解释:
(noun.) incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; 'the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated'.
(noun.) a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.
编辑:桑德拉--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
(a.) Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
(n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
(n.) A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.
埃利奥特录入
同义词及近义词：
n. Ridicule, raillery, banter, mockery, ASTEISM, saying one thing and meaning the opposite.
安东尼娅手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Satire, banter, quiz, rally, taunt, sarcasm, raillery, ridicule
ANT:Compliment, seriousness
凯瑟琳整理
解释:
n. a mode of speech which enables the speaker to convey his meaning with greater force by means of a contrast between the thought which he evidently designs to express and that which his words properly signify: satire.—adj. Iron′ical meaning the opposite of what is expressed: satirical.—adv. Iron′ically.—The irony of fate the perverse malignity of fate.
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例句:
- There was some delightful naked irony in Hermione. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I said, with withering irony, that it was sufficient to be skinned--I declined to be scalped. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- His marriage would be a mere piece of bitter irony if they could not go on loving each other. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Oh, I would wait a little longer than to-morrow--there is no knowing what may happen, said Lydgate, with bitter irony. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The irony of circumstances holds no mortal catastrophe in respect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The irony faded from her eyes, and she bent a clouded face upon her friend. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- At last Loerke turned to Gudrun, raising his hands in helpless irony, a shrug of ironical dismissal, something appealing and child-like. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- To be stung by irony it is not necessary to understand it, and the angry streaks on Trenor's face might have been raised by an actual lash. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- He emphasized the word holy with a touch of irony. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- He spoke in a peculiarly slow, quiet voice, and with an expression of still irony in his face not easy to describe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Often a drop of irony into an indifferent situation renders the whole piquant. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Everything turned to irony with her: the last flavour of everything was ironical. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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