《情感与理智》是英国女作家简奥斯汀以十八世纪英国为主要背景进行创作的爱情小说,小说之中主要以达什伍德姐妹为主要人物,以在她们身上发生的爱情故事为主要内容。在小说之中表达了姐妹俩完全不同的两种爱情观念,而作家的写作目的除了对于有情人终成眷属观念的祝福,同时也包括对于姐妹俩两种对爱情的方式的批判与讽刺,本文所要研究的是在这部小说之中,作者所要表达的讽刺意蕴,以及其进行讽刺的主要目的。 “Emotion and Reason” is a love story written by Jane Austen, a British woman writer, based on the eighteenth century Great Britain. The novel mainly includes the Dashwood sisters as the main characters and the love stories that take place in them. In the novel, two sisters ’two totally different conceptions of love are expressed. The purpose of the writer’s writing is not only for the blessing of having a lover’s final marriage, but also for the two sisters’ criticisms and satirical ways of love What is to be studied is the satirical implication that the author is to express in this novel, as well as his main purpose of irony.