| 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]
2 [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]
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