In a bitter twist of irony, it seems that the bank bailout may have actually hastened the need for a possible full sovereign bailout as it has crushed investor demand for any kind of Spanish debt.

This is a bitter irony in a century that began with a Millennium Declaration and Goals aimed at substantial poverty reduction, with better health given a high place as a driving force.

刚步入本世纪时，我们通过了旨在减少贫困的千年宣言和目标，并承诺通过重视增进健康来促进减贫。对照当前现实，真是辛辣讽刺。

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This is a bitter irony at a time when the international community is engaged in the most ambitious drive in history to reduce poverty and reduce the great gaps in health outcomes.

这是一种苦涩的讽刺，因为国际社会正在开展有史以来最雄心勃勃的运动，要减少贫穷并缩小健康结果方面的巨大差异。

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And the bitter irony.

并且带有一些苦涩的讽刺意味。

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The bitter irony is that the hospice treating AIDS patients is rich from the legacies of grateful dying patients.

辛辣的讽刺是专门治疗艾滋病病人的临终关怀院竟获取感激的垂死病人的遗产而致富。

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But there is a bitter irony.

但存在一点辛辣的讽刺。

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There is a bitter irony here.

这里存在一个极大的讽刺。

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Let me remind you of a bitter irony.

让我提请你们注意一个具有苦涩讽刺意味的事情。

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That King's death would cause so much violence was a cruel and bitter irony.

金的死引发了很多的暴力活动，这确实是残忍而苦涩的讽刺。

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This is a bitter irony at a time when the development community is committed to poverty reduction.

在开发界致力于减少贫穷的时候，发生这样的事情是一种难堪的讽刺。

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The ultimate irony comes when we rent a television set so that we can stay in at night and watch exactly the same programs that our despised country cousins watch.

当我们租来一台电视机打发晚上的时光，与曾被我们蔑视的乡下亲戚收看同一套节目之际，那真是一个绝大的讽刺。

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This could end up being the ultimate irony, as second-quarter results on both sides of the Atlantic are generally beating forecasts.

这也许是最后的讽刺，因为大西洋两岸各公司第二季度的业绩普遍好于预期。

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Their recycling stations are eyesores that are being removed as part of the greening of Shanghai for Expo, she says, without a hint of irony.

她并无嘲讽之意地表示，作为办好世博绿化上海行动的一部分，那些影响市容的废品回收点将被清除。

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Without the slightest hint of irony he said the accident wos the best thing that had ever happened to him.

他丝毫不带讽刺地说，所发生的事故对于他来说是件再好不过的事情了。

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I thought I detected a hint of irony in her words.

我觉得我听出她的话中有讽刺口气。

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Her writing contains a hint of irony.

她的作品带有一丝嘲讽意味。

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In her voice we can sense a certain tinge of irony

从她的声音里我们可以感到某种讥讽的意味

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Parody on use experienced from the initial "explore" and "experiment" to the later skill, ease of use, this process and the New Era novelist sense of irony to the germination and consciously link.

戏仿经历了由最初带有探索、实验的动机到后来娴熟、自如的广泛运用，这一过程与新时期小说家们反讽意识的萌发和自觉相联系。

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With no sense of irony, they bow twice, clap twice – to attract the attention of the gods – make a wish, and bow again.

他们鞠两个躬、拍两下手（为了引起神的注意）、许愿、再鞠躬，丝毫没有讽刺感。

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And I'm sure that we can all appreciate his sense of irony.

我很肯定大家都很欣赏他的反语。

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It knows how to have fun and has a healthy sense of irony.

它知道如何取乐和具备合理的调侃意识。

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