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单词 satire
释义
satire
sætaɪəʳ ˈsæˌtaɪr
Word forms: plural satires
1 N-UNCOUNT 讽刺;讥讽 Satire is the use of humour or exaggeration in order to show how foolish or wicked some people's behaviour or ideas are. 讽刺;讥讽
  • The commercial side of the Christmas season is an easy target for satire.

    圣诞季商业化的一面很容易招来讥讽。

2 N-COUNT 讽刺作品 A satire is a play, film, or novel in which humour or exaggeration is used to criticize something. 讽刺作品
  • ...a sharp satire on the American political process. [+ on]

    一部尖刻讽刺美国政治进程的作品

SYN parody, mockery, caricature, send-up [British , informal]
Quotations
It's hard not to write satire Juvenal Satires
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books
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