p;                               (F.S. Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited) [30]
   (2) “The boy has broken another glass,” said the mother.
       “A fine thing!” the father replied. [31]
   In example (1), the son chose the polite way of using “the perfect father” which actually referred to one who was stingy about money matter. If he complained directly to his father that “A stingy father”, the impoliteness would break the relationship between the father and son more or less. Conversely, the father in example (2) criticized the fault of his son in an indirect way. “A fine thing!” could be treated as a criticism out of goodwill.

6.1.4 Used as an approach to be humorous
In Section 5.2 of this paper, we have learned that verbal irony serves as an approach of verbal humor. Therefore, the humorous function of irony can be easily revealed. Below are some more examples for further acknowledging.
(1) Polite horse
The Bach sees Ball walking lamely, asks him: “ What’s happened?” Ball says: “ I went to the forest park to ride the horse on Sunday.” “ I’m sure that it was an unruly （难驾驭的），or the horse did not allow to ride?” “Both are not. Just the horse was very polite --- when it ran to a stockade （栅栏）at a full gallop, it stopped all of a sudden and made me leap over first.” Says Ball. [32]
(2) Taken in Twice
“What’s the matter with your hands?”
“They were bitten by the serpent（大蛇）.”
“How can it happen?”
“I went to the forest the day before yesterday. Seeing there is a snake around the tree, I picked up a stick to beat.”
“Missed the target.”
“No, what is twisted（缠绕）around the tree was a rope, while what I picked up was just a snake.” [33]
A new conception of what a polite horse is shows forth in example (1).[转贴于:论文大全网 https://www.11665.com/Foreignlanguage/langageculture/201103/53598.html]

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