laughing stock

英 [ˈlɑːfɪŋ stɒk]

美 [ˈlæfɪŋ stɑːk]

n.  笑柄; 笑料

牛津词典

noun

• 笑柄；笑料
  a person that everyone laughs at because they have done sth stupid
  1. I can't wear that! I'd be a laughing stock.
     我可不能戴那个东西！否则会成为笑柄的。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 笑柄；笑料
  If you say that a person or an organization has becomea laughing stock, you mean that they are supposed to be important or serious but have been made to seem ridiculous.
  1. The truth must never get out. If it did she would be a laughing-stock.
     真相一定不能传出去。万一传出去，她会成为笑柄。
  2. ...his policies became the laughing stock of the financial community.
     他的政策成了金融界的笑柄

双语例句

• He did not get his hare but became a laughing stock in the state.
  当然，兔子是没等到，他自己却成了宋国的笑柄。
• The repaired$ 2 billion Hubble Space Telescope, once the laughing stock of the scientific community, had snared its most elusive prize: a black hole.
  修复的20亿美元的哈勃太空望远镜，曾是科学界的笑柄，已经诱捕最难以捉摸的奖品：一个黑洞。
• He used to be a laughing stock in his class.
  他过去是班上的笑柄。
• Thus, the House of splendor become a laughing stock of the scene.
  于是，书屋内的辉煌情景竟成了一种笑柄。
• For a start you would be a laughing stock.
  首先，你会成为人们的笑料。
• And I am a laughing stock in my own town!
  而我成为了我自己城镇的笑柄！
• For some, Feng may be too commercial at times – product placement in his movies is often conspicuous and has even become a laughing stock.
  对于一些人而言，冯小刚有时太过商业化了&他影片中的植入广告往往十分显眼，甚至这已经成为了一个笑柄。
• Since then, it will set up a Fool's Day, with well-intentioned lies, warn those who think that smart people, because not to believe, do the folly of a laughing stock.
  此后，人们便设立了愚人节，用善意的谎言，告诫那些自以为聪明的人，不要由于轻信，干出贻笑大方的蠢事。
• You're the laughing stock of the entire fashion world.
  你成了时装界的笑柄。
• The scoff of the world If you do that, you will make yourself a laughing stock.
  天下的笑话[笑柄]你要是这样做，就会成为笑柄了。