C2 a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result具有讽刺意味的情况;出乎意料的情况;令人啼笑皆非的事情
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With inevitable irony, it was Smith who scored the winning goal against his former team.
The final irony of the situation was that Collins himself ordered the assassination.
The irony is that the formula turned out to have been incorrect all along.
He noted the irony that the weapons were now being used against the country that produced them.
The irony is that his mistake will actually improve the team's situation.
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