| 词汇 | collocation_english_irony |
| 释义 | Collocations with ironyThese are words often used in combination with irony. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. bitter irony It was a bitter irony that a movement so concerned with the politics of production should have had so little leverage at the workplace for much of the period. certain irony There is a certain irony to the position. cruel irony There is a further cruel irony in all this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 final irony There is at least one final irony here. great irony The great irony is that as the states liberalized their charter law they lost some control over the direction of economic development. sense of irony With a characteristic sense of irony, he used the example of the controversial needle exchange proposals. tragic irony The curse, in a standard tragic irony, finally redounds upon her; the natural order of gender has its revenge. ultimate irony Roy's new virtuosity presents the ultimate irony. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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