Irony



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 反话; 出人意料的事情或情况
• ［英］ n. 反话;出人意料的事情或情况 ( the opposite of what is expected)

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural -nies)

• Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirōnia, from eirōn dissembler
• Date: 1502
• 1. a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning — called also Socratic irony
• 2.
  • a. the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
  • b. a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony
  • c. an ironic expression or utterance
• 3.
  • a.
    • (1) incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
    • (2) an event or result marked by such incongruity
  • b. incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play — called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
• Synonyms: see wit

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