0 a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result -- 具有讽刺意味的情况；出乎意料的情况；令人啼笑皆非的事情
1 the use of words that are the opposite of what you mean, as a way of being funny -- 反语；讽刺
With inevitable irony, it was Smith who scored the winning goal against his former team.
The final irony of the situation was that Collins himself ordered the assassination.
The irony is that the formula turned out to have been incorrect all along.
He noted the irony that the weapons were now being used against the country that produced them.
The irony is that his mistake will actually improve the team's situation.
Throughout, he did not allow the role's personified irony to come out.
The irony is, of course, that the serial-sequential nature of speech is precisely the property that a writing system avoids.
The primary agency of this irony of course is the actors' personal presence on the stage.
