1·His works on the absurdity and sufferings of life create the most comprehensive irony.
他的作品对生活中的荒谬和苦难进行了最全面的反讽。
2·There is a cruel irony to all this.
对所有这一切来说，还有一个残酷的反讽。
3·That means studying poets and orators who wield the full resources of expression: vivid metaphors, elegant parallels, subtle irony, or picturesque imagery.
这意味着学习诗人和演说家们不拘一格的表达：生动的比喻、讲究的对称、隐晦的反讽、独特的象征。
4·His response was to change it from an ironic statement to a statement about irony itself: "Don't Take the Hint."
他的反应是将这语带讥讽的语句改为对反讽本身的声明：“不许联想”。
5·Perhaps more than an ambiguity, it was an irony of history.
也许那并非一宗历史的悬案，而只是一段反讽。
1·His tone was tinged with irony.
他的语气中微含讽刺。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The irony is that when he finally got the job, he discovered he didn't like it.
讽刺的是，当他最终得到那份工作时，他发现自己并不喜欢它。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·But here's the crazy irony, I don't want my child-free life back.
但讽刺的是，我不想回到没有孩子的生活。
4·The irony is that for all the overexcited debate, the net effect of immigration is minimal.
讽刺的是，在所有这些过于激烈的争论背后，移民的净效应是微乎其微的。
5·By violating the maxims, it can be a way to be subtle or polite, or to convey humor, through sarcasm or irony.
违反这些准则可能是一种隐晦或礼貌的说话方式，或是通过挖苦或讽刺来表达幽默的方式。
1·This is one of the chief functions of satire and irony.
这是讽刺和反语的主要功能之一。
2·The irony is lost in translation.
原文的反语用法在翻译中丢失了。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·Some courts might want to address this irony by saying that the distributor must reserve this right and this ability - and thus must expose itself to a vicarious infringement claim.
一些法庭可能会提出这个反语通过说发布者必须保留这个权利和能力—并且因而必须使它自己暴露于代理侵权诉讼。
4·The irony here is that spending time with oneself is EXACTLY what you should be doing to lead a satisfying and fulfilling life.
这里的反语是说花时间和自己在一起的确是你满足和充足自己的生活所必须做的.
5·In February Watson, a supercomputer devised by IBM, trounced two human champions at "Jeopardy!", an American quiz show renowned for the way its clues are laden with ambiguity, irony, riddles and puns.
二月，由ibm设计的超级计算机Watson在Jeopardy游戏中完胜两名人类冠军，Jeopardy是一个美国智力竞赛节目，以其线索中充满一词多义、反语、谜语以及双关语著称。
1·Some offenders resist the irony, and request nothing but a glass of water.
一些犯人拒绝嘲讽，除了一杯水之外什么也不要。
2·As so often happens, the irony of life plays itself out and I later realized that, for various reasons, none of those jobs would have worked for me.
当这种情况一再发生，生活的嘲讽在我面前展露无遗，我渐渐明白：因为各种各样的原因，这些工作中没有一个是真正适合我的，或者说是我能够做好的。
3·Can you sense the irony?
你能体会到这种嘲讽吗？
4·And less complicated, for sure; a dog’s devotion is without detectable irony, a lap cat’s purring without artifice (if not disapproval).
而且毫无疑问，这种关系更单纯。 一条狗的忠诚中不会掺杂着一丝嘲讽;趴在腿上的猫发出的咕噜声里也听不出半点做作（如果不反对）。
5·And while I say that with a certain sense of irony, there's also some sneaky truth to it.
当我嘲讽的说时，也是一件事实。