因?yàn)?/c>據(jù)他說(shuō),在卡塔爾人看來(lái),他的體重和他對(duì)伴侶的選擇都是符合社會(huì)準(zhǔn)則的。
It would be a nice irony if the best hedge against a collapse of the post-industrial economy turned out to be a return to the agrarian past.
如果事實(shí)真的證明回到農(nóng)耕文明才是對(duì)抗后工業(yè)經(jīng)濟(jì)崩潰的最佳手段時(shí),那真是一個(gè)絕妙的諷刺。
The irony that the roots of the crisis lie in housing markets, where turnover costs are high, is often lost on the tax's proponents.
具有諷刺意味的是,托賓稅的支持者往往沒(méi)有意識(shí)到此次金融危機(jī)正是始于交易成本較高的房產(chǎn)市場(chǎng)。
So there's a bit of a nice irony here that Hume who all these philosophers in this period is probably most opposed to Descartes.
這里具有諷刺意味的是,休謨以及那個(gè)時(shí)代所有的哲人們,幾乎都反對(duì)笛卡爾的觀點(diǎn)。
A game without end, in which the signs participate spontaneously, as if from a continuous sense of irony.
一個(gè)沒(méi)有終點(diǎn)的游戲,在這里面,所有的標(biāo)志、跡象都自發(fā)的參與進(jìn)去,就好像來(lái)自于一個(gè)持續(xù)不斷的諷刺的感覺(jué)。
She also noted the irony that Crosby's call for discipline appeared to have been leaked to the media beforehand.
她說(shuō),很諷刺的是,克羅斯比呼吁議員們不要抱怨一事已提前被媒體獲悉。
It seems an irony that you have to drive around one of the oil rich countries of the world trying to find petrol.
這似乎是諷刺,你要駕駛圍繞石油之一試圖尋找汽油世界富國(guó)。
Irony is often shown in derogatory sense, which is of help learners of Japanese to recognize irony when communicating with native speakers.
反語(yǔ)的表現(xiàn)特征,是內(nèi)含的意思經(jīng)常為貶義。這種特征為我們在用日語(yǔ)和日語(yǔ)母語(yǔ)者進(jìn)行交流的時(shí)候,識(shí)別反語(yǔ)發(fā)話發(fā)揮了啟示作用。
But no matter how much irony we cake it in, the L-word grinds the ears of many people over the age of 25.
但是不管我們說(shuō)得多么諷刺,這個(gè)以L開頭的詞仍會(huì)劃過(guò)很多25歲年輕人的耳畔。
He once had sex with a girl on her boss's desk, who was a raging feminist, just for the irony of the act.
他有一次跟一個(gè)女孩在她老板的辦公桌上作愛(ài),而她則是個(gè)激烈的女權(quán)主義者,我提這個(gè)只是為了映照出其行為的諷刺意味。
The irony is that China is discovering the romance of the road just as Westerners seem to have lost it.
具有諷刺意味的是,中國(guó)發(fā)現(xiàn)道路的浪漫之時(shí),西方人似乎正失去這種感覺(jué)。
The exquisite irony is that this was supposed to have been a good week for Mr Murdoch.
極具諷刺意味的一點(diǎn)是,對(duì)于默多克而言,過(guò)去的一周本應(yīng)是美好的一周。
The irony is that the wise man wrote down his observation as if it were something new!
諷刺的是,這位智者仍然慎重其事地寫出自己的觀察與感想,彷佛里頭確實(shí)有著絲毫新意!
I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that Negroes led so passional an existence.
我往往尋思,有些人以為黑人的生活熱情洋溢,哪曉得這叫人啼笑皆非。
The irony is that Greece is in a position similar to that of Germany in the early 1930s, where cutting costs makes the debt load heavier.
諷刺的是,希臘當(dāng)前處境,竟與30年代初的德國(guó)相類似。在這種處境下,削減成本將加重債務(wù)負(fù)擔(dān)。
As he talks, he recognises the irony of the story and his melancholic face breaks into a quick laugh.
他說(shuō)著,意識(shí)到這太諷刺,憂郁的臉上泛過(guò)一絲尷尬的笑容。
And the editorial called it a "bitter irony" that Xintai had been held up as a model city for reducing its number of petitioners .
社論將此事稱為一個(gè)“辛辣的諷刺”,因?yàn)?/c>新泰曾因上訪人數(shù)下降而被評(píng)為模范城市。
The results are fascinating, alternately rife with political irony and revealing of a Chinese reality not always apparent to outsiders.
評(píng)選結(jié)果極具吸引力,政治諷喻與揭示中國(guó)現(xiàn)實(shí)的詞語(yǔ)交替流行,對(duì)外人來(lái)說(shuō)并不是那么明顯。
The irony of all this is that the pipeline is not nearly as important as either its defenders or critics make it out to be.
關(guān)于所有這一切,諷刺的是,無(wú)論支持者還是反對(duì)者,鋪設(shè)管道的意義遠(yuǎn)沒(méi)有他們想要表現(xiàn)出的那般重要。
That would yield a fine irony: China's government spreading its line using the technology of a company it has battled over censorship.
那樣的話,就會(huì)形成一個(gè)絕妙的諷刺:中國(guó)政府曾在審查問(wèn)題上與谷歌不和,但它又在利用這家公司的技術(shù)來(lái)擴(kuò)大自己的影響力。
Clearly, the hard rock community in the States knows who you are, so any anonymity among the general public there has to be a strange irony.
很明顯,這個(gè)國(guó)家的搖滾界都知道您是誰(shuí),所以如果說(shuō)普通大眾不知道您,這才是一個(gè)很詭異的諷刺。
It is a cruel irony that the euro could be felled by an Italian trying too hard to be a German.
對(duì)于有可能被危機(jī)打倒的歐元而言,一個(gè)意大利人盡力以一個(gè)德國(guó)人的方式去采取措施,是一個(gè)很殘忍的諷刺。
eg. The great irony was that despite all his explanations nobody believed him.
最具諷刺意味的是,盡管他竭力解釋,可沒(méi)一個(gè)人相信他。
It is the last sad irony of Herb Clutter that just a few years after his own violent death, his way of life died too.
赫伯·克拉特最后一個(gè)悲傷的諷刺是,在他被殺害而死之后,他的生活方式也隨他而去了。
There is, though, an irony: the new powers with which Europe must now compete have never been much convinced by the Union's postmodernism.
不過(guò),有一件事頗具諷刺意味:現(xiàn)在歐洲必須與之競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的新興大國(guó),從未被歐盟的后現(xiàn)代主義說(shuō)服。
Of course, the irony was that I immediately retired to my study to look them up on Google.
當(dāng)然嘍,具有諷刺意味的是,我立刻動(dòng)身到書房去動(dòng)用谷歌來(lái)查。
Seeram said the irony of finding a potential anti-diabetes compound in a sweetener is not lost on him.
Seeram說(shuō)從一種甜料中發(fā)現(xiàn)具抗糖尿病潛力的化合物總讓他覺(jué)得不可思議。
His speech of defence was more like an irony or even an insult to China.
在法庭上他的辯護(hù)詞更像是對(duì)中國(guó)的諷刺甚至侮辱。
Her aunt made it a matter of high but easy irony , or comedy .
她的姨母把尖銳而輕松的諷刺或嘲笑賦予了這個(gè)概念。
The irony was that the senior master treated me like a reborn young master who he wished would stay.
具有諷刺意味的是,高級(jí)船長(zhǎng)對(duì)待我像一個(gè)新生的年輕碩士的人,他想會(huì)留下來(lái)。
But as Nemeroff points out, there is a certain irony to this position, at least when viewed from the perspective of a water engineer.
但是,如內(nèi)梅蘿芙指出的,這種狀況有一定的諷刺意味,至少當(dāng)你從水務(wù)工程的角度來(lái)看。
She looked at me square in the eye, without a trace of irony and stated, "I have no time for an intern. "
她直視著我的眼睛,不含一絲嘲諷地表明:“我可沒(méi)有時(shí)間去應(yīng)付實(shí)習(xí)生。”
if taken to a harsh extreme Verbal Irony You are a fine goalkeeper, allowing the other side to score six goals.
你不愧是個(gè)出色的守門員,讓對(duì)方進(jìn)了六個(gè)球。
But to fully grasp the geniality of Nielsen's design, one needs to understand the Danish sense of humour and subtle irony.
但要充分把握尼爾森的設(shè)計(jì)和藹,我們需要了解和微妙的諷刺幽默丹麥的感覺(jué)。