There is irony here for journalists, but there is no electricity or basic services.

这里有记者见惯了的反语，却没有电力和基本服务。

Quite often I notice on Twitter and places like that people misunderstand irony.

我经常在推特或其他社交媒体上看到人们误解了反语的意思。

Irony means using words to mean something that is the opposite of its literal—or most usual—meaning.

反语是指使用某个词表达和其字面意思完全相反的含义。

And then we throw your body in the water...Gee, that does sound fun!

然后要我们把你扔到水里… 天呐，这听实有趣（反语）。

So, you need to be careful how you use sarcasm, but sarcasm can be funny.

也就是说大家用讽刺的时候要注意方式，不过话说回，讽刺/反语有时候也很有趣。

You see, there is actually a paradox playing this is work done by our very own Daniel Wegner on ironic processing.

这里有自相矛盾的地方，Daniel Wegner对反语处理做过研究。

How can you not appreciate the irony, right?

你怎么不接我说的反语呢？

'Cause that's not an opposite nickname.

这个昵称不是反语。

She means the opposite. - I'm serious.

她说的是反语 - 我认真的。

I know it was for Robert and the girls, but I thank you, without irony, from the bottom of my heart.

我知道这都是为了罗伯特和孩子们，不过我还是要谢谢您，这不是反语，我由衷地谢谢您。

Remember that we want our conversation partner to know we're being sarcastic, and one way to do this is to exaggerate our feelings.

记住，我们希望我们的反语能被谈话拍档听懂，其中种方式就是夸大我们的感觉。

When we say the opposite of the truth, or the opposite of our true feelings in order to be funny or to make a point, we call that sarcasm.

当我们想要陈述相反的事实或是表达完全不同的感觉时，我们会讲反语达到调侃或是强调的目的。