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”。

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年的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的男子组合的故事，这个组合的名称本身就带有反讽意味，因为这个组合不曾" 活" 不曾存在。

Some cultures don't have sarcasm; honest people always say what they mean.

有些文化里不会有嘲讽/反讽的现象。人们总是想什么说什么。

Some cultures don't have sarcasm; honest people always say what they mean.

有些文化里不会有嘲讽/反讽的现象。人们总是想什么说什么。

They write what they call in French libelles.

他们撰写自诩为" 反讽" 的文学作品。

You're being sarcastic, and I don't even care.

你在反讽 但我根本不想接茬。

But it does kill it. And it would kill it on the hands, and that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to reporters.

不，消毒剂确实能杀菌啊，能杀掉手上的细菌，那就有帮助嘛。这是给记者们的一个反讽的问题。

If your prefer we will end the session.Otherwise take a brief break.And may I congratulate you in a backhanded fashion for having a full session this evening.Triev was a nice place.

如果你愿意，我们就结束这一节。否则就休息一会。请允许我反讽地恭喜你，今 晚上了完整的一堂。特里夫是个好地方。

My father was clearly mimicking Socratic irony, which would start with an innocent " You don't say, " only then to lead his interlocutor onto turbulent shoals.

父亲显然在模仿苏格拉底式的反讽，先天真无邪的“真的吗”开始，接着把对谈者引入混乱的陷阱中。

Without me, you are just a shabby little bird feather. The feather pen laughed at the inkstand.

没有我，你只是一个破旧的小鸟的羽毛而已。墨水瓶反讽道。

He told reporters he was being sarcastic when he suggested coronavirus could be treated with disinfectant injections.

特朗普在接受记者采访时表示自己之前时候说注射消毒剂治疗新冠是在故意反讽。

But I was asking a sarcastic and a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectants on the inside.

当时我是以反讽的方式在问记者问题。

I--I don't know, maybe I'm misinterpreting irony.

我——我不知道，也许我误解了反讽。

It's dry, it's sarcastic, it's quite dark, and it's very ironic.

它很干涩，很讽刺，很阴暗，而且非常具有反讽意味。

The reason why is because of a thing called, it's literally called the ironic process.

原因在于一个被称为“反讽程”的现象。

I mean, as a slight tangent, what do you make of the Socratic irony?

我的意思是，稍微岔开一下话题，你怎么看待苏格拉底的反讽？

I mean, it's a weird sort of backhanded compliment.

我的意思是，这是一种奇怪的反讽恭维。

I didn't really get sarcasm or irony, right?

我不是很懂讽刺或反讽，对吧？

Is this an example of verbal irony?

- 这是言语反讽的例子吗？

Whereas when everybody is always being ironic, and I think that identifying something as cringe is like the non-engaging way of being ironic, like saying that's cringe is the same as, the exact same as saying, that's good.

而当每个人都总是用反讽态度时，我认为把某事称为“尴尬”（cringe）其实是一种不参与的反讽方式，说“这很尴尬”和说“这很好”本质上是一样的。