Aristotle's literary theories of tragedy play a significant role in the development of literature.

It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy.Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth.

它的存在是因为读者欣赏使人耳目一新的刺激，毫不客气地提醒他们活在一个思相陈腐、道德低廉、哲学荒谬的世界里。讽刺作品有助于促进人们认识真相，虽然很少促动人们为真理而行动。

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But while the sensei's initial teachings seem innocent ( if ludicrous) enough-"kick with your fists and punch with your feet"-they soon become more sinister, and the film becomes a satire of toxic masculinity.

然而，尽管一开始老师的教学看上去无害甚至可笑——“用你的拳头踢，用你的脚猛击”，但是很快就变得邪恶起来，电影也发展成了对有毒的大男子主义的讽刺作品。

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It was a nice piece of corporate satire to conceal losses by exploiting the widespread habit of paying too much for acquisitions and writing them down – that advisory fee was especially creative.

利用企业高溢价收购继而将其减记的惯用操作来达到掩盖亏损的目的，这真是一篇以公司为主题的绝妙讽刺作品&咨询费的设立尤其富有创意。

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It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method that made them interesting and entertaining.

并不是独创性的思考使这些讽刺作品变得流行，而是表达的方式、讽刺的方法手段使它们变得有趣和引人入胜。

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Row's novel is also a satire, but an eerily calm one in which a white man has" racial reassignment "" surgery and becomes black.

耶斯·罗的小说也是讽刺作品，但却有着让人毛骨悚然的冷静，一个白人男性进行了“种族重指定”手术，成为黑人。

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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.

艾格斯显然是要把这本书写成一本反乌托邦的讽刺作品，不过这个目标可以说是失败了。

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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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