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单词 ironic
释义
ironic
adjective
uk
/aɪˈrɒn.ɪk/us
/aɪˈrɑː.nɪk/
(alsoironical,uk
/aɪˈrɒn.ɪ.kəl/us
/-ˈrɑː.nɪ.kəl/)
C2
interesting,strange, orfunnybecause of being very different from what you would usuallyexpect:
具有讽刺意味的；出乎意料的；令人啼笑皆非的
[+ that]Itis ironicthatalthoughmanyitemsare nowcheaperto make, fewerpeoplecanaffordtobuythem.具有讽刺意味的是，虽然如今很多物品的制作成本下降了，但能买得起的人却少了。
showingthat you reallymeantheoppositeof what you are saying:
反语的；讽刺的
an ironiccomment/reply讽刺的评论／挖苦的回答
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ironically
(Definition ofironicfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

ironic| American Dictionary

ironic
adjective
us
/ɑɪˈrɑn·ɪk/
(alsoironical,us/ɑɪˈrɑn·ɪ·kəl/)

ironicadjective(USING OPPOSITE WORDS)

using words thatsuggesttheoppositeof what youintend, usually inorderto behumorous:
Theplaywasfullofwitty, ironicbanter.
[+ that clause]It’s really ironic that I would beaskedto write aboutpetstoday because justyesterdayourdogranaway.

ironicadjective(HAVING OPPOSITE EFFECT)

oddorhumorousbecause something has a different oroppositeresultfrom what isexpected:
[+ that clause]It’s really ironic that I would beaskedto write aboutpetstoday because justyesterdayourdogranaway.
(Definition ofironicfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofironic

ironic
For one, postmodernists exploited theironicpossibilities of the colon.
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The letter is unintentionallyironicin that secular scholars of this time had already begun to construct scholarly editions of classics from antiquity.
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So she politely goes along with the nave believer and becomes anironicbeliever in i the fictitious life she is supposed to have led.
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Accordingly, they develop a computational model of irony based on three types ofironicsituations, which they call intentional, serendipitous, and competence irony.
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It isironicthat some of the most vocal critics of distributed representations first came to modelling through this software.
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That "ministers and markets" might have given rise to the modern research university is a compellingironictale.
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The entire novel has to be understood as a masterpiece ofironicstylization.
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But it is a rewriting that yields a nicelyironicconclusion to the story told here, of the coincidences and conflicts between modernism and modernity.
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They also gave more or lessironicrenderings of classics from official mass culture.
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Indeed, this can be seen to be the basis for the sequence's powerfullyironicjuxtaposition of different cultures, landscapes and textual geographies.
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That this ground - this ample geography - is covered by temporary housing is anironicpointer toward the transitoriness of human settlement.
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Likewise, 77% (2164) ofironicsimile types are disambiguated automatically.
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Only when familiar irony is used in a literally biasing context can its salientironicinterpretation be suppressed and discarded.
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Howironic, given his disdain for serialism and even atonality.
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It isironic, too, that recent incursions by ' lit-critters ' into historical writing reproduce the very stereotypes long ago demolished by decades of historical research.
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