And it's Hawthorne's satire, It's apocalyptic, angry critique of all these Americans who think they're inventing everything anew every day.

这就是霍桑的讽刺作品,这是一篇启示录般的故事,是对这群自认为每天都发明新玩意儿的,美国人的愤怒谴责

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Misunderstood as a satire on the Irish peasantry, Yeats's production of the play led to riots in 1909.

被误解为对爱尔兰农民的嘲讽，此剧引起了1909年的暴乱。

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It would seem that far from utopia, the Republic represents a radical dystopia, a satire, in some sense, of the best polity.

这让《理想国》看起来远不像是乌托邦，反像是极端的反乌托邦，从某些层面看来像是在讽刺所谓最佳政体。

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He is a figure of critique. He's a figure of satire.

他是一个备受批评和充满讽刺的人物。

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That's Spinoza on Machiavelli, because "he was favorable to liberty" and that the book, he says, is kind of a satire on princely rule.

那就是斯宾诺莎对马基雅维利的理解，因为,他推崇自由，而关于《君主论》，他说道，某种程度上是对君主统治的讽刺。

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Let me just say something about the Clouds this comic play this satire on Socrates because it is part of that initial accusation that Socrates says is leveled against him.

我来谈一下《云》,这是出讽刺苏格拉底的喜剧,因为那是苏格拉底指称,矛头指向他的最初控诉的一部份。

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