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Ironically Irony Adv Graded 副词   [Adv 英 Aɪ'Rɒnɪkli] 美 Aɪ'Rɒnɪkli

英语单词 ironically
英美音标 英 [aɪ'rɒnɪkli] 美 [aɪ'rɒnɪkli]
中文释义 adv.讽刺地;说反话地
英语例句 (1) Ironically, he is the son of a policeman.
(2) Ironically, he was in fact opposed to capital punishment and hoped this would lead eventually to abolition.
中文例句 (1) 讽刺地是,他是一个警察的儿子。
(2) 讽刺地,他实际上是反对死刑的,希望会被废除。
vocabulary简明 When you see the word ironically, you know there's a disconnect between what is happening and what was expected to happen. You won the race, even though, ironically, you're the only one who didn't train.
vocabulary扩展 Ironically and the noun it's related to — irony — come from the Greek eiron meaning "dissembler, someone who hides the truth." But irony isn’t exactly untruthful — it's just not what you expect. Your mother sent you off to camp so you could become a champion tennis player, but, ironically, you broke your leg the first day and spent the summer playing bridge instead. You didn’t get what you (or your mother) expected.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADV-GRADED 副词]具有讽刺意味的是;令人哭笑不得的是 You use ironically to draw attention to a situation which is odd or amusing because it involves a contrast.
  [ADV with cl]
  • Ironically, for a man who hated war, he would have made a superb war cameraman.

    具有讽刺意味的是,他这个痛恨战争的人曾有可能成为一个优秀的战地摄影师。

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[ADV-GRADED 副词]讽刺挖苦地;说反话地 If you say something ironically, you do not mean it and are saying it as a joke.
  [ADV with v]
  • Classmates at West Point had ironically dubbed him Beauty.

    西点军校的同学们曾挖苦地戏称他为“美人”。

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