wryly

1. ADJ-GRADED (表情)哭笑不得的
   If someone has a wry expression, it shows that they find a bad situation or a change in a situation slightly amusing.
   1. Matthew allowed himself a wry smile...
      马修不由得苦笑了一下。
   2. She cast a wry glance in her grandmother's direction.
      她朝奶奶无可奈何地瞟了一眼。
2. ADJ-GRADED （话语或文章）挖苦的，讽刺的，揶揄的
   A wry remark or piece of writing refers to a bad situation or a change in a situation in an amusing way.
   1. The play is a rueful, wry observation about the way we are all subject to the ravages of time...
      该剧凄然而讽刺地描述了我们大家是如何被岁月所摧残的。
   2. There is a wry sense of humour in his work.
      他的作品带有一种讽刺意味的幽默。

1. ( Colonel Qaddafi` s Green Book suggests that in a perfect state, the government disappears and the people rule, but Libyans note wryly that the colonel has never seemed to follow his own advice.)
   （根据卡扎菲的绿皮书，一个完美的国家里，政府将消失，取而代之的是人民来领导国家。但利比亚人民却挖苦他说，卡扎菲从来不会照自己说的做。）
2. Locals wryly suggested it was the sea air in the Dover Grammar schoolgirl's home town of Deal, Kent, which contributed to her success, or possibly a secret ingredient in Middle Street Fish Bar's chips.
   当地人略带挖苦地推测她成功的原因，大概是家乡肯特郡Deal小镇的海滨气息，弗洛伦斯就读于当地的多佛文法学校；或者是这家中央街道炸鱼吧的薯条里某种神秘的配料。
3. He went on to demonstrate that the entire universe could have sprung from a singularity and, in his 1966 Ph.D. thesis, wryly noted that there is a singularity in our past.
   他继而证明，整个宇宙都有可能是从某个奇点演变而来的。他在1966年写的博士学位论文中略带讽刺意味地写道：我们过去的历史中就有一个奇点。
4. It is also a wryly indignant song that rips into the racism of liberals whose reverence for black culture is a crippling caricature of black culture.
   这也是一首带有挖苦式愤怒的歌，猛烈抨击了自由主义者的种族主义，他们对黑人文化的崇敬是黑人文化的一副扭曲的讽刺画。
5. At an August seminar, a Mexican official wryly noted that this time his country was not responsible.
   在8月份的一个研讨会上，一位墨西哥官员苦笑着说，这次他的国家没有责任。
6. Friend smiled wryly when she saw my embarrassment.
   我的朋友看到我受窘时讥嘲地笑了。
7. He remarked wryly on visiting a colleague's spotless lab: no danger of mould here.
   弗莱明在某次参观同事一尘不染的实验室时曾打趣道：此处绝无发霉之危险。
8. The only silver lining to all this, he adds wryly, is that a bottom, even if not in sight yet, is a lot closer than it was.
   仅仅有微弱的迹象，他接着说，问题是底部被扭曲了，即便它现在不在视线之内，但已经越来越接近。
9. On her last visit as prime minister to Mikhail Gorbachev's Russia, Mrs Thatcher noted wryly that the new mayor of Moscow seemed to be a disciple of her own economic guru, Milton Friedman.
   最后一次以首相身份访问米哈伊尔戈尔巴乔夫（MikhailGorbachev）主政的俄罗斯时，撒切尔夫人挖苦道，新任莫斯科市长似乎是她本人的经济学导师米尔顿弗里德曼（MiltonFriedman）的信徒。
10. He commented wryly that he was not clear about others.
    他对他不了解别人的评论是扭曲的。
11. His mother smiled wryly and reached out to brush a leaf off his clothes.
    母亲苦笑着，挣出手来，替他摘掉衣服上的一片草叶。
12. "Don't worry& I don't understand any of it," I said wryly.
    “不用担心&我一句都没听懂。”我挖苦道。
13. He writes in an endearing first person voice that can be both wryly observant and objectively fair at once.
    他以讨人喜欢的第一人称语调抒发心臆，让人感到，他的观察同时兼具幽默讽刺与客观公正的特点。
14. As Mr Kondo notes wryly: "It's an antitrust authority, but it keeps all the authority to itself."
    正如近藤洋介挖苦地解释道：“它实际上是一个反垄断机构，却将所有权利归于己身。”
15. ` I see, 'he commented wryly.
    ‘我知道。’他挖苦说。
16. Lucy said wryly," mike, if you don't build that hospital, I'll die an old maid. "
    璐西噘着嘴说：“迈克呀，要是你不修建那个医院，那我可能到死还是老姑娘。”

adv

1. in a wry manner
   1. `I see,' he commented wryly