重新定义“讽刺”：注射消毒液来治疗是在讽刺！
此前记者会上，特朗普提出了惊人建议：是不是可以将消毒剂注入体内来杀死病毒。随后，多家消毒剂生产公司发声明警告用户不可使用消毒剂来治疗。
今天他回应称，此前建议注射消毒液（injecting disinfectants）来应对病毒是在讽刺（sarcasticly），然后表示“手上用消毒液可能会有很好的效果。”
无注释原文：
Trump says he was being sarcastic with comments about injecting disinfectants
NBCNEWS
President Donald Trump said Friday that his remarks on injecting disinfectants to treat COVID-19 were sarcasm, after doctors responded with horror and disinfectant manufacturers urged people not to ingest the poisonous substances.
"I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters just like you, just to see what would happen," Trump said on Friday during a bill signing for the coronavirus aid package. "I was asking a sarcastic and a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it and it would kill it on the hands, and it would make things much better."
But the president's comments the day before — a lengthy musing that disinfectant or powerful light could be used to fight the virus — did not appear to be sarcasm; they were in part directed at a Homeland Security official.
Ingesting or injecting bleach into the body is extremely dangerous and doctors immediately called the president's suggestion "irresponsible" and "dangerous."
Trump denied he was asking his experts to investigate the issue, and repeatedly reiterated that disinfectant on the hands and sun can damage or kill the coronavirus. He said he was urging his officials to investigate how "sun can help us."
Here's what the president said in Thursday night's briefing:
"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds, it sounds interesting to me.”
He also asked Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House pandemic response coordinator, to ask doctors whether heat and light could be used to treat the virus.
"Not as a treatment," she said. "Certainly fever is a good thing, when you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I have not seen heat or light…"
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Trump responded.
Pressed by a reporter on Thursday on offering "rumors" to the American people, Trump said, "I'm the president and you're fake news."
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含注释全文：
Trump says he was being sarcastic with comments about injecting disinfectants
NBCNEWS
President Donald Trump said Friday that his remarks on injecting disinfectants to treat COVID-19 were sarcasm, after doctors responded with horror and disinfectant manufacturers urged people not to ingest the poisonous substances.
sarcastic
sarcastic /sɑːˈkæstɪk/ 表示“讽刺的；嘲讽的；挖苦的”，英文解释为“showing or expressing sarcasm”，如：sarcastic comments 冷嘲热讽的话，a sarcastic manner 嘲讽的态度，举个🌰：
‘There's no need to be sarcastic,’ she said.
“不必挖苦人嘛。”她说。
名词：sarcasm /ˈsɑːkæzəm/表示“讽刺；嘲讽；挖苦”，英文解释为“a way of using words that are the opposite of what you mean in order to be unpleasant to sb or to make fun of them”。
disinfectant
表示“消毒剂；杀菌剂”，英文解释为“a substance that disinfects”，如：a strong smell of disinfectant 呛人的消毒剂气味。
动词：disinfect表示“给…消毒”，英文解释为“to clean sth using a substance that kills bacteria”，如：to disinfect a surface/room/wound 给表面/房间/伤口消毒。
inject和ingest
inject表示“（给…）注射（药物等）”，英文解释为“to put a drug or other substance into a person's or an animal's body using a syringe”举个🌰：
Adrenalin was injected into the muscle.
往肌肉里注射了肾上腺素。
ingest表示“摄入；食入；咽下”，英文解释为“to take food, drugs, etc. into your body, usually by swallowing”，举个🌰：
The chemicals can be poisonous if ingested.
这些化学制品如果摄入体内可能会引起中毒。
补充：
digest表示“消化”，英文解释为“when you digest food, or it digests , it is changed into substances that your body can use”，举个🌰：
Humans cannot digest plants such as grass.
人不能消化草类植物。
"I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters just like you, just to see what would happen," Trump said on Friday during a bill signing for the coronavirus aid package. "I was asking a sarcastic and a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it and it would kill it on the hands, and it would make things much better."
But the president's comments the day before — a lengthy musing that disinfectant or powerful light could be used to fight the virus — did not appear to be sarcasm; they were in part directed at a Homeland Security official.
musing
表示“沉思；冥想；诉说想法”，英文解释为“a period of thinking carefully about sth or telling people your thoughts about it”举个🌰：
We had to sit and listen to his musings on life.
我们只好坐着听他谈论人生。
Ingesting or injecting bleach into the body is extremely dangerous and doctors immediately called the president's suggestion "irresponsible" and "dangerous."
bleach
bleach /bliːtʃ/ 表示“漂白剂；消毒剂”，英文解释为“Bleach is a chemical that is used to make cloth white, or to clean things thoroughly and kill germs.”
Trump denied he was asking his experts to investigate the issue, and repeatedly reiterated that disinfectant on the hands and sun can damage or kill the coronavirus. He said he was urging his officials to investigate how "sun can help us."
Here's what the president said in Thursday night's briefing:
"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds, it sounds interesting to me.”
He also asked Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House pandemic response coordinator, to ask doctors whether heat and light could be used to treat the virus.
"Not as a treatment," she said. "Certainly fever is a good thing, when you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I have not seen heat or light…" "I think it's a great thing to look at," Trump responded.
Pressed by a reporter on Thursday on offering "rumors" to the American people, Trump said, "I'm the president and you're fake news."
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