No sooner had he presented Emma in a positive light than he would undercut her with an ironic remark.

他刚一以积极的眼光介绍艾玛， 就用讽刺的话来削弱她。

The Prime Minister made a broadcast in which he infamously described the Sudeten crisis as " a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing, " a deeply ironic remark given the extent of the British Empire at the time.

首相在一次广播中臭名昭著地将苏台德危机描述为“在遥远的国家里我们一无所知的人们之间的争吵”，考虑到当时大英帝国的疆域， 这是一个极具讽刺意味的言论。