这就是ironic(反讽)。反讽可以是滑稽的,但并不是所有滑稽的事都可以称得上“反讽”。 02 Travesty What you think it means: A tragedy or something unfortunate. 你认为单词的含义是:悲剧或不幸的事。 What it really means: A mockery or parody. 单词的真正含义是:拙劣的模仿或恶搞。 这也是人们经常用错的...
Homeownership [主语] is [系动词] actually not a great idea [表语] from an investment standpoint. [状语] 4. 句子翻译 主句 Something is something. 某事是某事。 分句-1 Something is ironic.[注:something=what] 某事具有讽刺意味。 分句-2 Any classical economist would tell you. 任何古典经...
Remember that even if an ironic turn is unexpected, it needs to make sense within the world of your story. This means within the time and place you’ve created—for instance, you wouldn’t create an ironic twist in a medieval fantasy by suddenly having a character whip out a cellphone—b...
a few nerds enthusiastically claimed that the lyrics in Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic" contained no examples of irony, and, having been routinely lambasted for it, she admitted that the irony of "Ironic" was that it contained no irony at all. The real irony, however, is that it contain...
What life means to me? I have to confess I seldom dare to think over it. Who said that famous ironic sentence: “Whenever men start to think, God starts to laugh.”---Sorry I don’t know the original version. Indeed, our knowledge is limited however we try to learn more...
When trying to define anything, it's usually pretty prudent to start with a dictionary definition and then discuss what it means and how ironic situations generally follow the so-called official rules. So: irony 1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to ...
For example, "He is very clever" said with an ironic tone means just the opposite.You are going to hear eight short conversations between two speakers. Listen carefully and write down "Yes" or "No" to each of the following questions.1. Does the woman enjoy the food in that restaurant?
The literal meaning is the most obvious or non-figurative sense of a word or words. Language that's not perceived asmetaphorical,ironic,hyperbolic, orsarcastic. Contrast withfigurative meaningor non-literal meaning. Noun: literalness. Gregory Currie has observed that the "literal meaning of 'litera...
always has been and always will be. He's been at Microsoft his whole career and speaks C# almost as well as English. (It was Brian—and Charles Petzold, of course—who taught me the wonders of managed code.) So it's somewhat ironic that, between the two of us, Brian is the ...
“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run fasterwhenthey have lost their way.”—Rollo May “Don’t pray when it rainsifyou don’t pray when the sun shines.”—Satchel Paige “It doesn’t matter how slowly you goas long...