| 单词 | satire |
| 释义 | sat·ire 1. a. b. < a farcical satire about … adultery and late-achieved maturity — Orville Prescott > c. < diabolically good satires of single authors — Anthony Boucher > d. < dance satire > < visual satire … abetted by hilarious sound effects — M.S.Dworkin > < an ungainly person, whose clothes were a continual satire on his professional skill — Bayard Taylor > 2. a. < satire … flourishes in a stable society and presupposes homogeneous moral standards — Evelyn Waugh > < the constructive purpose to which the humor and underlying hopefulness of good satire give nourishment — J.R.Newman > b. obsolete 3. < into these paragraphs he packed his dry wit and his easy, good-natured satire on the follies of the day — Eleanor Sickels > < a brilliant writer with a rare talent for corrosive satire — C.J.Rolo > Synonyms: see wit |
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