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

• The experiment consists of two parts, each including 20 ironies and 20 literal utterances.
  实验分为两个部分，每个部分都包括20个反语和20个直义句。
• 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。
• When Gene Kelly died last week at83, he left us to contemplate certain ironies.
  上周83岁的金。凯利去世时，留给我们深思某些讽刺。
• To paint a masked figure is to project an irony, perhaps several ironies simultaneously.
  描画一个戴着面具的人物就是同时构想一个或者多个反讽。
• One of the ironies of the Chinese market is that although there is huge demand at the bottom end from migrants to cities, much of the construction is at the top-end, where the margins have tended to be larger.
  中国房地产市场一个颇具反讽意味的现象是，虽然移居到城市的人们有着巨大的底层需求，但住房建设大多面向利润率往往更高的高端需求。
• The ironies of yesterday do not change today's reality. The results were contrary to expectation.
  但从前这种与预期相反的结果并不能改变今天的现实。
• From the beginning, this crisis was replete with ironies.
  从一开始，这场危机就充满了讽刺意味。
• 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。
• It is perhaps one of the great ironies and hypocrisies of our age; and a source of popular disgust that chief executives would now ignore at their peril.
  这或许是我们这个时代的巨大讽刺和伪善之一；同时也是一个让公众普遍憎恶的源头，如果首席执行官们现在还对此置之不理的话，那他们就该倒霉了。
• It's one of the cruel ironies of aging: if you want to remember your favorite restaurants, the less you should eat at them.
  变老的一个无情的讽刺就是：如果你想记住你最喜欢的饭馆，那么你最好还是少上那里去吃饭。