ironic
ironic 英 [aɪˈrɒnɪk] 美 [aɪˈrɑnɪk]
adj. 讽刺的；反话的
- If something is ironic it's unexpected, often in an amusing way. If you're the world chess champion, it would be pretty ironic if you lost a match to someone who just learned to play yesterday.
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- adj. 讽刺的；反话的
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1. I wondered if he was being ironic but his friend agreed with him, giving the sort of sigh that acknowledges a self-evident truth.
我疑心他是否在说反话，但是他朋友也与他意见一致，发出几声叹息等于默认了这是不言自明的事实。
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2. But Copeland, an only child, is far from feeling dismal and finds it ironic that people in her life with children often complain about their lifestyles.
但是作为一个独生女，科普兰还远远没有感觉凄惨，而且感到讽刺的是，她所认识的那些有孩子的人常常抱怨他们的生活方式。
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3. Buzz is still very unsure — and this is ironic for those who don’t understand the relationship within that Apollo 11 crew — but I don’t think Buzz, to this day, really understands Armstrong very well.
巴兹也还是很不确定——这对那些并不了解阿波罗11号船员之间关系的人来说是个讽刺——但是我认为巴兹直到今天还是不能真正地很好了解阿姆斯特朗。
- ironic (adj.) 1620s, "pertaining to irony," from Late Latin ironicus, from Greek eironikos "dissembling, putting on a feigned ignorance," from eironeia (see irony). Related: Ironical (1570s); ironically.
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