Satirising them is a form of homage.

讽刺他们是一种致敬。

In its dying days apartheid was satirised by a few white stand-ups.

在种即将消亡日子里，一些白人单口喜剧对种进行了讽刺。

In 1988 he published a novel that satirised many figures, including the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's despot.

1988年， 他出版了一部讽刺许多人物小说，包括伊朗暴君阿亚图拉霍梅尼。

Or perhaps it is just hard to satirise public life when so many South African politicians are unwitting comedians.

或者，当如此多南非政客都是不知情喜剧演时，也许很难讽刺公共生活。

When bold comedians satirised them, they sometimes even let the joke pass.

当大胆喜剧演讽刺他们时，他们有时甚至会放过这些笑话。

By 1988, he was delivering a Saturday Night Live monologue that morphed into an extended skit satirising the cliche of how relentlessly nice he is.

到1988年，他在《周六夜现场》上发表了一段独白，后来扩展为一出讽刺人们不断说他有多稽短剧。

There were also those who were fearful of having material from diseased cows introduced into their bodies, an objection readily satirised by the caricaturists of the day.

还有一些人担心将病牛物质引入体内，这种反对意见很容易成为当时讽刺画家笑柄。

And if I could also ask, were there any particular industry practices or attitudes during your time that you felt especially compelled to satirise in the book?

此外，我还想请教一下，在您所处时代，是否有某些特定行业惯例或态度让您感到特别有必要在书中进行讽刺？

Now the government's plans for the National Health Service have been satirised in a ditty entitled “The NHS is not for sale”; it registered over 150,000 YouTube hits within a week.

如今，讽刺英国政府改革国民健康保险制度计划打油曲“健保系统不卖”，在YOUTUBE上一周已获得十五多万次点击。

And so I wanted to, maybe it was something of an act of atonement to satirise these students who at their backs have tens, scores, even billions of deaths behind their great-great-grandparents.

因此，我想，或许这是一种赎罪之举， 去讽刺那些学生，他们曾曾祖父母背后有着数十、数百， 甚至数十亿死亡。