By violating the maxims, it can be a way to be subtle or polite, or to convey humor, through sarcasm or irony.

违反这些准则可能是一种隐晦或礼貌的说话方式，或是通过挖苦或讽刺来表达幽默的方式。

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And you tend to release your anger as sarcasm or irony.

而且你会释放或讽刺挖苦你的愤怒。

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Search for the humor or irony in the situation and laugh it off.

以幽默或讽刺的方式一笑了之。 笑！

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It is--at least, it puts itself out there as a candidate to be an alternative term that one might use if one got tired of saying "irony" or "paradox."

如果“讽刺“，“悖论“一类的词,用的太多,可以用“朦胧“来替换“

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And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

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Asked Thursday night if the NFL was showing a sense of humor or irony by having the Jets start with the Bucs, Ryan avoided the topic.

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Then there are those U.S. Army hats, expressing irony or not.

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The irony, or more aptly described telltale sign of the precarious nature of SWFs, is that countries which create and foster SWFs are not countries generally known for their strong belief in or fostering of the principles of capitalism within their own borders, yet they are adamant about exploiting capitalism within the borders of other sovereign nations.

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