satires是什么意思？

satires

• n. 讽刺，讥讽( satire的名词复数 )，讽刺作品；

例句

• This brilliant, rambling satires is written in a colloquial style. 这篇出色 、 结构松散的讽刺诗是用口语体写的.
• Newspaper circulations doubled, backstreet printing presses rolled off penny ballads and satires. 报纸的发行量翻了一翻, 小巷印刷厂不停的印着一便士歌谣和讽刺诗.
• Some of Aesop's Fables are satires. 《伊索寓言》中有一些是讽刺作品.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  讽刺;讥讽
  Satire is the use of humour or exaggeration in order to show how foolish or wicked some people's behaviour or ideas are.
  例句
  The commercial side of the Christmas season is an easy target for satire. 圣诞季商业化的一面很容易招来讥讽。
• N-COUNT
  讽刺作品
  A satire is a play, film, or novel in which humour or exaggeration is used to criticize something.
  例句
  ...a sharp satire on the American political process. 一部尖刻讽刺美国政治进程的作品