In any case, the tension between denotation and connotation is part of the way in which irony works.

在任何情况下，讽刺的作用,都是表达了符号和涵义之间的张力。

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The connotation, I have suggested, is of the variety of kinds that one might gingerly approach in thinking about complicating the texture of the story.

而深层的涵义，我认为，认真考虑的人,会有各种,不同的解读。

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