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

• 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。
• He inherited a fortune but died a month later; one of life's little ironies.
  他继承一笔遗产后一个月就死了，有点时乖命蹇吧。
• A Dongfeng victory party in Newport would not, of course, be without its ironies, given the rather more circumspect view taken of Chinese investment in the US compared to Europe.
  当然，假如东风在纽波特开庆功会，将不会不具讽刺意味，因为与欧洲相比而言，美国对中国投资持更为谨慎的态度。
• 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 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。
• History has many ironies.
  历史有许多具有讽刺意味的事。
• It is one of the saddest ironies of his life that even as they headed for divorce, they had at last begun to understand each other.
  而令人啼笑皆非的是，每次当他们的婚姻濒临破裂之时，他们就又能互相理解了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。