But Israeli experts training German pilots at an airbase that Britain's RAF used to fight the Germans in World War II is an historical irony not lost on Tomer Koriat, the deputy director of the training project.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

The relationship between the depth of the speaker's feeling and the obscurity of Lucy in the world is the irony that the speaker wants to lay hold of and that reconciles what seem like disparate facts in the poem.

说话者感情的深度,和Lucy现实世界的阻碍,是一种讽刺，说话者试图,在诗里协调不可能的事情。

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