We would admire both his earnestness and his self-aware irony.

我们由衷地钦佩他的认真和有自知之明的讽刺艺术。

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Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

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The irony is that Obama would look the other way while NATO tells these "noble lies" but will undoubtedly become indignantly self-righteous when the Republicans tell their own about him.

讽刺的是，如果是北约来撒这些“高尚谎言”，奥巴马会视而不见，但要是换了共和党人他肯定会自以为是地表示愤慨。

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He gets his laughs, but Tony's self-irony has been replaced by the star's self-comment, and it doesn't help that the writing often depends on glib banter, the most conspicuous example of which is an extended set piece in small-town Tennessee.

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He shows us just how far the contemporary usage of irony diverges from an older, far more appealing meaning, according to which irony is a portal to self-knowledge.

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