Satire

(a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

(a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

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• He always saw the joke of any satire against himself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He found a pleasure in setting up Blandois as the type of elegance, and making him a satire upon others who piqued themselves on personal graces. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But Loerke pulled himself together, rose, quivering, looking full at Gerald, his body weak and furtive, but his eyes demoniacal with satire. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And as to roaring myself red and that kind of thing--these men never understand what is good satire. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And so on, with a sting of satire in every fold of the florid description. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The satire on existing governments is heightened by the simple and apparently incidental manner in which the last remark is introduced. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Satire, you know, should be true up to a certain point. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This proviso might have sounded rather satirically in Will's ear if he had been in a mood to care about such satire. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This makes a concealed satire less disagreeable; but still this depends on the same principle. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• And why is it contrary, unless it be more shocking than any delicate satire? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It seemed a grim satire to accuse such brutes as these of taking things by force of arms. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This is an amusement to sharpen the intellect; it has a sting--it has what we call satire, and wit without indecency. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In its venerable one coat lay a certain vein of satire on human vanity in clothes. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Perhaps in Vanity Fair there are no better satires than letters. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I had not expected him to be, and was not surprised myself; or my observation of similar practical satires would have been but scanty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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