The television programme satirized the political events of the past week.

这档电视节目刺上周发生的政治事件。

The movie is a clever satire on the advertising industry.

那部影片是关于广告业的部巧妙的刺作品。

Satire is often a form of protest against injustice.

刺往往是种对不公正的抗议形式。

The writer takes wellknown fairy tales and gives them an ironic twist.

作者通过刺手法对家喻户晓的童话故事进行新的诠释。

It’s ironic that the weakest student in mathematics was elected class treasurer.

数学最差的学生竟被选为班级财务干事,这真是具有刺意味。

The joke is a nasty hit at him.

这个玩笑对他而言是个恶毒的刺。

Jack showed his dislike plainly in scorching satire.

杰克以尖刻的刺直率地表明自己的厌恶。

I squashed him with a sarcastic remark.

我说刺的话把他给镇住。

He chopped in with a sarcastic remark.

他突然插进刺话。

But cautious incrementalism, ironically, risks letting the world slip ever further down the deflationary spiral.

但是刺的是，我们现在要警惕渐进主义，这种风险会把我们循环带向更深的深渊。

His cartoon mercilessly lampoon the leading politician of the day.

他的刺漫画无情地挖苦当今的政界要人。

Our comic play was a burlesque of a Shakespearean tragedy.

我们的喜剧是对莎士比亚出悲剧的刺性模仿。

The show was a spoof of college life.

那戏是对大学生活的刺。

Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market, where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.

具有刺意味的是，甚至当政府正强烈谴责美国的政策时，美国牛仔裤和录像带却是市场的摊位上最抢手的商品，因为此处的前后不致可被视为代表人类的反复无常。

A poet calling himself Satyrical Dick wrote how a “jolly wine-cooper” could combine a “pint of old port” with some rough Spanish wine and thus “could counterfeit claret the best of the sort”.

个自称刺的迪克的诗人就写过个“快乐的箍桶匠”是如何在“品脱陈年波特酒”里混入些粗制的西班牙葡萄酒，而“炮制出极品波尔多红酒”的。

Donne's father died suddenly in 1576, and left the three children to be raised by their mother, Elizabeth, the daughter of John Heywood, epigrammatist, and a relative of Sir Thomas More.

多恩的父亲在1576年猝亡，留给他的母亲三个孩子抚养。他的母亲是刺诗人约翰·海伍德的女儿，也是托马斯·摩尔的亲戚。

The little bancha are listening to the legends of their ancestors' origins. Ironically, the carvings on the pillars are actually copied from Africa.

凉亭课室里的「小班榨」正在倾听祖先由来及传说；刺的是，亭柱上的木雕居然仿自非洲文化。

Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift. A shipwreck survivor encounters miniature people，giants and superintelligent，talking horses among other things in a series of political satires.

个船只遇难的生还者偶遇到除在系列**刺小说中所拥有的事物以外，还有微型人、巨人和超智人、会说话的马人。

The problem is that to really satirise racism, you have to be clever and this wasn't.It was just crass and stupid.

但是问题是，如果你想去刺种族歧视的话，你必须很聪明的去做但是事实证明你没有，你做的不仅愚蠢而且鲁莽。

Satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

刺是项孤独而又内省的工作，因为没有人未经番具有非常耐性的自我检讨而能够逼真地刻画个傻瓜的。