It probably teaches each of them a good deal to be able to accommodate, to encounter, to get used to the ironies of the other, and I think this applies to conversation in general.

或许正是这种共生关系,教会了双方很多东西,使他们学会怎样提供，发现，并习惯对方的讽刺，我想这适用于一般的谈话。

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Our opponent understands our ironies, and there is, it seems to me, a perfect kind of symbiosis, ironically enough, between political opponents precisely maybe in the measure to which their ironies are mutually intelligible.

政敌同样也了解我们的讽刺，我认为，这其中有一种共生关系，足够讽刺的是,敌对的两派之间,恰恰好能相互理解对方的讽刺。

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