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具有讽刺意味
Irony
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
讽刺是心灵的卫生。
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
反讽把每一个简单的事实都看作是一种挑战。
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
讽刺就是把音量调大，诚实。
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
两个基本的文学特质:超自然主义和反讽。
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
当人们在屏幕上快乐时，没有多少讽刺意味。
And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.
讽刺的是，没有我的引用，他们写得更好。
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
生活中最大的讽刺是，几乎没有人能活着离开它。
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
听着:不管我们知不知道，我们的文化充满了讽刺。
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
感情上的讽刺是一只狗对着月亮吠叫，同时在坟墓上撒尿。
Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.
不认为自己具有讽刺意味的讽刺是最危险的讽刺。
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
当我们已经知道答案却希望不知道的时候，我们就会寻求建议。
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
幽默无处不在，因为人类做的任何事情都带有讽刺意味。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
讽刺的伟大之处在于，它将事物分割开来，超越它们，这样我们就能看到缺点，伪善和重复。
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
如果一个国家把自由看得比任何东西都重要，那么它就会失去自由，而具有讽刺意味的是，如果它更看重舒适或金钱，那么它也会失去自由。
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
幽默带来洞察力和宽容。讽刺带来的是更深层次的理解，而不是友好的理解。
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
你知道，最大的讽刺是，人们认为你必须有钱才能享受美食，这是一个耻辱。
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
当然，具有讽刺意味的是，我的职业生涯比我多年来模仿的一些人持续的时间要长得多。
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
我父亲很风趣，即使他的幽默总是带着讽刺的阴暗面。