It's all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise-making.

这真是一种绝妙刺，当你想到作为他们摇钱树莎士比亚，自己也是个演员，留着胡子，一起大吵大闹。

Surprisingly for a tale of fatal lung disease, however, the tone is gently ironic, a levity that offsets the symbolism and philosophy.

然而，令人惊讶是对于这样一个肺病故事，讲述语气中带有温和刺意味，是一种可以弥补象征主和哲学轻浮。

So it's a kind of ironic, I guess.

所以我想这是一种刺说法。

It is hard to fathom, and bitterly ironic: the depth of the suffering caused by drugs whose ostensible purpose is to alleviate pain.

表面上是为了减轻痛苦毒品实际上给病人造成了莫大伤害。

Her ironic and individualistic spirit was ill fitted to the grey conformity of “people's Poland”: the Nobel citation said she wrote with the ease of Mozart and the fury of Beethoven.

她喜欢刺、崇尚个人主精神与“人民波兰”死气沉沉和整齐划一格格不入：诺贝尔评委会说，她诗有着莫扎特恬然与贝多芬愤怒。

Ironic, considering Detroit's nickname was once the City of Trees.

刺是，底特律曾有“树之城”美称。

We're out of time. It's ironic, huh?

没有时间了 听着很刺是吧？

It was ironic that the UK Government's sincere efforts to ensure that Brexit had no unintended consequences for the UK's internal market was dismissed as a 'power-grab' by the SNP.

有刺意味是，英国政府付出真诚努力为了确保英国脱欧不会给内部市场带来意想不到后果，苏格兰民族党对此不屑一顾，称其为“权力争夺”。

Which some would say is " ironic" .

这听起来很刺。

In a sadly ironic twist, Beverly Hills, 90210's upcoming Fox reboot was announced the very day of Perry's stroke.

令人啼笑皆非是，就在佩里中风当天，Fox宣布翻拍《比佛利山庄90210号》。

What's ironic is that the higher power actually had nothing to do with this.

刺是，这些更高权力事实上与这一切并无关系。

So he finds it ironic – so different from what you would expect – that he can get to Paris by train more quickly than he can travel to many British cities.

所以他觉得很刺——和所预料不一样——他坐火车去巴黎比去英国其他城市快多了。

It's ironic, yet essentially hopeful that we usually know quite well how to be a better friend to near strangers than we know how to be, to ourselves.

刺是，虽然我们幸好都非常了解如何对陌生人做一个称职朋友，却不知道如何像朋友一样对待自己。

You won Best New Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2007 for The Heavenly Kings, which was a popumentary about a boy band called Alive that is ironic in itself because it never was alive: it never existed.

你在2007年香港电影金像奖赢得新普导演奖，得奖作品是《四大天王》这部流行音乐纪录片，内容讲述一个叫 Alive男子组合故事，这个组合名称本身就带有反意味，因为这个组合从来不曾" 活过" 从来不曾存在过。

Here, people very often speak in a sarcastic or an ironic way.

这里，人们讲话总是带有刺意味。

This is ironic though because selecting the wrong love partner will likely lead to divorce.

这很刺，因为选择了错误爱情伴侣，很可能会导离婚。

It's ironic really that the confidence within us is actually quite timid and shy.

刺是，我们内心自信实际上是相当胆怯和害羞。

The same goes for irony, all too often, an inexperienced writer will create a strong ironic situation and then spoil it by spelling out what they mean by it as if readers were too stupid to understand.

刺也是如此，通常情况下，一个没有经验作家会创造一个强烈刺情境，然后通过解释他们意思来破坏它，就好像读者太蠢了无法理解一样。

Kind of ironic 'cause we're not on the street.

有点刺，因为我们不在街上。

Of course, when you get a usage like that it can get ironic very quickly.

当然，当你这样用时候，会很容易带出刺意味。