简单的说，反语是词面与语义之间的隔阂，这个空间在讲者与听众之间可形成一种只可意会不可言传的交流。

Irony, put simply, is a gap between words and their meaning, a space across which speaker and listener exchange a knowing wink.

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爱因斯坦抓住了问题的实质，他写道：“数十年黑暗中对真理的探索，只可意会不可言传的体验”。

Einstein captured it best when he wrote, "the years of anxious searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express."

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如果我瞥见了只可意会不可言传的事物，企图把它说出来，那上不明智的；对于我们不理解的事物，我们也不应该去赋予它某种意义。

If we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to utter it, nor should we seek to invest with significance that which we cannot grasp.

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