这部小说是对美国政治的尖锐讽刺。

The novel is a stinging satire on American politics.

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这似乎是对办公室用语的讽刺：每个人都取笑它，但经理们喜欢它，公司依赖它，普通人也乐于接受它。

This seems to be the irony of office speak: everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

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但这似乎是对办公室闲聊的讽刺：每个人都取笑它，但经理们喜欢它，公司依赖它，普通人也乐于接受它。

But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

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And it's Hawthorne's satire, It's apocalyptic, angry critique of all these Americans who think they're inventing everything anew every day.

这就是霍桑的讽刺作品,这是一篇启示录般的故事,是对这群自认为每天都发明新玩意儿的,美国人的愤怒谴责

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That's Spinoza on Machiavelli, because "he was favorable to liberty" and that the book, he says, is kind of a satire on princely rule.

那就是斯宾诺莎对马基雅维利的理解，因为,他推崇自由，而关于《君主论》，他说道，某种程度上是对君主统治的讽刺。

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Brooks It's very interesting. Brooks's reading of "She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways," the wonderful Lucy poem by Wordsworth, emphasizes the irony of the poem.

非常有趣,在对Wordsworth的诗“,《独自幽居》的解读中，就十分强调讽刺的运用。

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