Sarcasm
['sɑːkæz(ə)m] or ['sɑrkæzəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) 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'--Jonathan Swift.
德威特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
校對:拉里
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Taunt, gibe, fling, satire, irony, ridicule, cutting jest, satirical remark.
科尔校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Gibe, chaff, irony, jeer, satire, ridicule, taunt, sardonicism
ANT:Eulogy, compliment, panegyric, eulogium
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解釋/意思:
n. a bitter sneer: a satirical remark in scorn or contempt: irony: a gibe.—adjs. Sarcas′tic -al containing sarcasm: bitterly satirical.—adv. Sarcas′tically.
霍雷肖整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I see you were not,' said the stranger; an expression of quiet sarcasm playing about his mouth; 'or you have known my name. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- New York's an awfully safe place, he added with a flash of sarcasm. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The servants will know _that_, said Rosamond, with the slightest touch of sarcasm. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Talk sentiment to him, and you would be answered by sarcasm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In flute-like tones of sarcasm she said-- You can easily go after Mrs. Casaubon and explain your preference. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Happily,' said Mr Rugg, with sarcasm, 'I did not so far travel out of the record as to ask the gentleman for his name. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She did not care what unjust sarcasm might be hurled at her in reply. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- All I had to do, I said, with gloomy sarcasm, was to forget Dora. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I consider you, sir,' said Mr. Pott, moved by this sarcasm, 'I consider you a viper. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- There was a faint touch of sarcasm in the reference to her son, and Archer knew it and had expected it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- More than I am likely to get anywhere, said Lydgate, with rather a grating sarcasm in his tone. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mrs. Catherick returned to her chair, and looked at me with a grimmer sarcasm than ever. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He was persuaded their sarcasm all arose from envy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- These creatures never suspect--they have no idea of a sarcasm. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There are tremendous sarcasms against a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents, and makes no returns. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- As I was a member of the committee, and helped to frame the Address, these sarcasms came home to me. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Sarcasms of which the severity amazed and puzzled me, harassed my ears; then flowed out the bitterest inuendoes against the pride of intellect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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