Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who also lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus.
通过他在柏拉图对话录中的表现，苏格拉底因对伦理学的贡献而闻名，正是借用柏拉图的苏格拉底的名字得到苏格拉底反讽与苏格拉底方法的概念。
On the one hand, he says, his reference to a divine mission, he explicitly says there, will be taken by his audience as being just another instance of Socratic irony and insincerity.
一方面，他表示自己所指的神授任务，他很明白地表示，将会被听众误以为只是另一轮的，苏格拉底式讽刺及伪善。
And similarly the deep significance of Socratic irony opened out through discussing the piety. Among Russian writers, Dostoyevsky is the most reverent one in religion, at the same time, he is also the most suspicious one in religion belied.
反过来，借着对虔敬的讨论，苏格拉底的反讽也展示了它多层面的意义。陀思妥耶夫斯基是俄罗斯最有宗教虔敬感的作家，同时又是宗教信仰方面最尖锐最深刻的怀疑者。
Followed by the analysis based on the concept of Socratic irony, Kierkegaard took on irony itself to establish a philosophical, existential interpretation, which is embodied in his doctorial thesis " The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference ".
正是在分析苏格拉底反讽观的基础上，克尔凯郭尔对反讽作出了哲学式的、生存论的解释，这具体体现在他的博士论文《论反讽的概念》一书中。