ironies

英 [ˈaɪərəniz]

美 [ˈaɪrəniz]

n.  (出乎意料的)奇异可笑之处; 有讽刺意味的情况; 反语; 反话
irony的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 反语;冷嘲
  Ironyis a subtle form of humour which involves saying things that you do not mean.
  1. They find only irony in the narrator's concern...
     他们发现叙述者只是一味地嘲讽。
  2. Sinclair examined the closed, clever face for any hint of irony, but found none.
     辛克莱审视着那张不动声色的精明的脸庞，试图寻找任何冷嘲的迹象,但是却什么都没发现。
• N-VAR 有讽刺意味的情形;令人啼笑皆非之处
  If you talk about theironyof a situation, you mean that it is odd or amusing because it involves a contrast.
  1. The irony is that many officials in Washington agree in private that their policy is inconsistent...
     具有讽刺意味的是,华盛顿的很多官员都私下里承认他们的政策前后不一致。
  2. Opposition parties lost no time in stressing the irony of his return to power after being rejected by voters in November.
     他 11 月份遭选民否决后又重新上台，反对党马上对这一讽刺性现象大做文章。

双语例句

• Zorba's response embodies a supreme appreciation for the richness of life and the inevitability of all its dilemmas, sorrows, tragedies, and ironies.
  Zaoba的反应包含着对生活丰富性以及随之而来的各种两难问题、悲伤、灾难无比的欣赏。
• Indeed, one of the bigger ironies of the property bubble was that lenders and investors probably thought they were being relatively prudent.
  事实上，房地产泡沫一个更大的讽刺便在于：放贷方和投资者或许都还认为自己比较谨慎。
• It is perhaps one of the peculiar ironies of our modern digital age& our desire to find anti-digital backlashes.
  这或许是我们所处的现代数字化时代的一个特有讽刺&我们渴望找到反数字化的反抗手段。
• It is one of the troubling ironies of his life that he was fundamental in promoting mainstream acceptance of black pop even as his own skin shade grew strangely whiter.
  他的人生中颇具讽刺意味、且令人不安的一件事就是，他是推动主流听众接受黑人流行音乐的中坚力量，而他自己的肤色却诡异地越来越白。
• Libyans have had a long time to grow used to such ironies, but their credulity has lately been stretched anew.
  利比亚人民早就对这种荒唐事见怪不怪，但是他们轻信的毛病最近又重新抬头。
• Lord of the Flies is an elaborate web of ironies.
  《蝇王》是一部精心设计的反讽网。
• Mr Dyson, who relishes such ironies, observes that the digital ecosystem of the Internet has now assumed biological complexity.
  戴森喜欢这样的讽刺意味，并注意到，互联网的数码生态系统现在已经呈现了生物复杂性。
• One of the cruelest ironies about climate change is that the ones who will be hurt the most are the most innocent: the worlds poorest and those yet to be born.
  气候变化带来的最残酷的讽刺之一，就是，最受伤害的人恰恰就是最无辜的人世界上那些最穷的人们和那些还没有出生的人。
• One of the undoubted ironies is the effect the financial crisis has had on the business school funding model.
  确然无疑的讽刺之一，是金融危机对商学院筹资模式的影响。
• On Dramatic and Romance Ironies in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  《哈克贝里·费恩历险记》中的戏剧与浪漫反讽