Irony

(noun.) incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; 'the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated'.

(noun.) a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.

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• There was some delightful naked irony in Hermione. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I said, with withering irony, that it was sufficient to be skinned--I declined to be scalped. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• His marriage would be a mere piece of bitter irony if they could not go on loving each other. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Oh, I would wait a little longer than to-morrow--there is no knowing what may happen, said Lydgate, with bitter irony. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The irony of circumstances holds no mortal catastrophe in respect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The irony faded from her eyes, and she bent a clouded face upon her friend. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• At last Loerke turned to Gudrun, raising his hands in helpless irony, a shrug of ironical dismissal, something appealing and child-like. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• To be stung by irony it is not necessary to understand it, and the angry streaks on Trenor's face might have been raised by an actual lash. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He emphasized the word holy with a touch of irony. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He spoke in a peculiarly slow, quiet voice, and with an expression of still irony in his face not easy to describe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Often a drop of irony into an indifferent situation renders the whole piquant. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Everything turned to irony with her: the last flavour of everything was ironical. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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