Irony
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[编辑] 解释
[编辑] 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)
[编辑] 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
- a.
- Synonyms: see wit