satire
/'sætaiә/
📖 中文释义
- n. 讽刺文学, 讽刺
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
复数 satires
💬 双语例句
Back then, irrational news decisions, sycophancy, and propaganda were passed off as journalism. In those days, editors, reporters, and columnists played a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities, resorting to satire, humor, or metaphor.
One area where I disagree with Summers concerns his defense of meritocracy. Suggesting that meritocracy is an unalloyed good ignores the provenance of the term, which the sociologist Michael Young coined in his 1958 dystopian satire The Rise of the Meritocracy.
🔵 同义词
🔗 常用搭配
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n witty language used to convey insults or scorn