Marriage is an institution fraught with ironies.

婚姻是如此讽刺。

Often a drop of irony into an indifferent situation renders the whole piquant.

在平淡无味的情景中，加入一滴调侃戏虐的成分，往往会使整个形势变得富有刺激性。

The irony is just occurring to me.

我也是刚意识到这件事有多讽刺。

Okay, okay. You've got a sense of irony.

好了，好了。你说话还挺讽刺的。

[2] This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home.

尽管在美国男性比女性在公共场更健谈，但在家里他们却比妻子话少。

Did he not see the irony in what he'd said?

难道他没有听出他话里的讽刺意味吗？

The irony was never lost on me.

我从来没有忘记过这种讽刺。

The irony is that these same students who are constantly denying themselves that high-density fun are also spending a lot of time checking Facebook, or picking new outfits for their Bitmoji avatars, or browsing dank memes.

讽刺的是，这些不断否认高密乐趣的学生也花了大量时间来刷脸书，或为他们的 Bitmoji 形象挑选新衣服，或浏览 dank 表情包。

Socrates could feign ignorance, or pretend to be dumber than he was. We call this Socratic irony.

这种装傻、装呆的方式，我们称为“苏格拉底式的反讽”。

Irony? my dear, I was perfectly in earnest.

冷嘲热讽？亲爱的，我可是相当认真的。

His car rolled backward, and in a striking display of irony, hit a sign saying " Rome" , the small town in North Germany he had mistakenly plugged into the GPS system.

他的车向后滚动，以一种惊人的讽刺方式撞到了一个写着 “罗马” 的标志，这是他错误地插入了 GPS 系统的德国北部小镇。

The irony of course is from the Houthi perspective, a control over a limited amount of supply particularly when it comes to food means you have control over everything.

讽刺的是从胡塞的角来看，控一定数量的供给，尤其是食物，意味着你可以控一切。

Personally I think they should just teach it to walk the actual dog because irony.

我个人认为他们应该教会它像真正的狗一样走路，这样可以讽刺它们了。

Quite often I notice on Twitter and places like that people misunderstand irony.

我经常在推特或其他社交媒体上看到人们误解了反语的意思。

This is Harvard’s philosophy: We teach our students enough economics to read the business page, enough science to read the Science Times，and enough sense of irony to be able to get the jokes in the New Yorker.

我们教给学生足够的经济学知识 让他们去读商务信息, 足够的科学知识去读《科学时代》，足够的讽刺感去理解《纽约客》 里的笑话。

On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia was expected to attack his country on February 16th, but after that one of his advisors said he spoke quote, " with irony" , so questions there.

周一，乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基表示，俄罗斯预计将在216日袭击乌克兰，但之后，他的一名顾问表示，他的发言“带有讽刺意味”，所以问题来了。

The supplies Mosqueda needs sit out at sea, in the same metal bins, a cruel irony after barely keeping his restaurant open through the pandemic.

Mosqueda需要的物资都在海上，也是在这么一个铁箱子里，这听起来有点讽刺，因为他的餐馆在疫情期间几乎无法正常营业。

Foucault would both relish the irony but also call it out loud and clear.

福柯会喜欢这种讽刺，但也会大声而清晰地澄清事实。

He is too slow to understand the irony of his opponent.

他反应太迟钝，居然没有听出对手的讽刺挖苦之意。

But the irony of this turnaround has not been lost.

这一立场转变的讽刺之处尚不尽于此。