英[sɑː'dɒnɪk]美[sɑːr'dɑːnɪk]
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传说地中海中撒丁岛（sardinia）上有一种毒草，其毒性足以致命。误食者会肌肉抽搐，狂笑不止而死，死的时候脸上依然保持一种古怪的笑容。古希腊诗人荷马将这种笑容称为“撒丁式笑容”，翻译成英语就是sardonic smile，单词sardonic就来自撒丁岛的名字sardinia，现在常常用来表示“冷笑的”、“讥讽的”。
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adjective(形容词)
小知识
If someone is being scornful and mocking in a humorous way, call her sardonic. If you want to write comic sketches for late-night talk shows, work on being sardonic.
Sardonic comes from the Greek adjective Sardonios, which actually describes a plant from a place called Sardinia that supposedly made your face contort into a horrible grin…right before you died from its poison. The Greeks used sardonic for laughter, but we only use it when someone's humor is also mocking or ironic.
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比较级： more sardonic最高级： most sardonic