The character is played by Pamela Rabe, one of Australia's most accomplished actors, without a hump and with a heavy sense of irony.(该角色由跻身澳大利亚最负盛名的演员帕梅拉·拉贝饰演，少了驼背和浓重讽刺感的增加。)
But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.(但这似乎是对办公室闲聊的讽刺：每个人都取笑它，但经理们喜欢它，公司依赖它，普通人也乐于接受它。)
His tone was tinged with irony.(他的语气中微含讽刺。)
That’s sort of a poignant irony.(那段话有点尖刻的讽刺味。)
The potential irony is clear.(潜在的讽刺意味是很明显的。)
The irony of the historian' s craft is that its practitioners always know that their efforts are but contributions to an unending process.(历史学家工艺的讽刺之处在于，它的实践者总是知道，他们的努力只是对一个永无止境的过程的贡献。)
Then there's the final irony.(然后就是最后的讽刺。)
This would be no small irony.(这真是个莫大的讽刺。)
There is a cruel irony to all this.(对所有这一切来说，还有一个残酷的反讽。)
By violating the maxims, it can be a way to be subtle or polite, or to convey humor, through sarcasm or irony.(违反这些准则可能是一种隐晦或礼貌的说话方式，或是通过挖苦或讽刺来表达幽默的方式。)
