Eggers clearly means the circle to be a blistering, dystopian satire, but that fails because what happens is so absurdly far-fetched and over the top.

With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.

讽刺作品用自然的嘲讽态度重新设置了观点，将熟悉的事物自相矛盾地置在一起。

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Parody works is a special kind of literal creation which refers to the works satirizing or criticizing the original works by imitating them.

模仿讽刺作品是一类特殊的文艺创作形式，特指通过模仿原作内容而对原作加以讽刺或批评的作品。

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Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.

讽刺作品使我们排除了自满情绪，并愉快地惊叹道许多我们毫无疑问地接受的价值观是错误的。

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Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth.

讽刺作品虽然很少代表真理促成行动，但它却能使人们感悟到真理。

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The characters in his early novels are a lot subtler than the overblown caricatures in his more recent work.

同近期的强烈讽刺作品相比，他早期小说中的人物要微妙得多。

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On the Venice fringe there have been two films to cheer: an Italian reconstruction and a Philippine satire.

威尼斯电影节的外围作品中，有两部电影值得喝彩：一部重新打造的意大利影片和一部菲律宾的讽刺作品。

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Yet the whole of Gulliver's adventures form the most bitter and hard-thrusting satire in the English language.

整个格列佛的历险成了英语文学中最苦涩、最尖锐的讽刺作品。

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Satire rarely offers original ideas.

讽刺作品很少有创造性的思想。

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He was famous for his satirical works.

他以其讽刺作品而闻名于世。

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Stephen potter's well known spoof on the subject makes good reading.

史蒂温波特关于这个题目的著名的滑稽讽刺作品，读来煞是有趣。

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Like all satire, it can be misunderstood.

与所有的讽刺作品一样，它也可能被人误解。

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With Sinclair Lewis, it became simply burning satire.

辛克莱·刘易斯把它写成了辛辣的讽刺作品。

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Chaplin's Modern Times is a satire on machine civilization.

卓别林的【摩登时代】是对机械文明的讽刺作品。

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Juvenal would have said: difficile EST satiram non scribere ( it is difficult not to write a satire).

尤维纳利斯（juvenal）肯定会说：这样的题材很难不写成讽刺作品。

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He wrote his thesis on the fin de si è cle satire of Oscar Wilde and Will Self.

他的论文是关于奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde）和威尔·塞尔夫（Will Self）的颓废派讽刺作品。

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For example, an ethical guideline may prohibit a reporter from covering a company for which her spouse works.

例如，职业道德守则中的某一条可能禁止记者报道配偶就职公司的消息；

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Egyptian state-owned television reported the release of the hostages, which was confirmed by Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini.

埃及官方电视台报道了人质获释的消息，意大利外交部长弗拉蒂尼随后证实了这一消息。

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When the Chinese herbalist Li Ching-Yuen died in1933, newspapers around the world reported the news of his passing.

1933年，中国的草药医生李青云离开了人世，一时之间，世界各地的报纸争相报道了他去世的消息。

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I think working for a newspaper and reporting from all over the world would be exciting.

我认为在报社工作报道来自全世界的消息很让人兴奋。

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We report everything that happens in congress.

我们会报道一切有关国会的消息。

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