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

• We will be the laughing stock.
  我们将成为别人的笑柄。
• An Iranian state news agency covered this as real news. The news agency immediately became an international laughing stock.
  一家伊朗国家新闻机构把该消息当做真实新闻来报道，顿时成为国际笑柄。
• "I will not make myself a laughing stock among my friends by adding such a weird abbreviation to my new car," Xinhua quoted car owner Zhang as saying.
  “我可不想把这一个奇特缩写用到新车后成为朋友们的笑柄”新华社援引一位姓张的车主的话说。
• 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。
• But he also admitted it had made him a laughing stock as people drew comparisons with him and Mr Plod from cartoon series Noddy from Toytown.
  但他也承认，他也因此成了人们的笑柄，他被人们比作动画片《诺弟来啦》里面的普拉先生。
• You're becoming a laughing stock.
  你正成为别人的笑柄。
• You're not coming out with me dressed like that; you'll make me a laughing stock with all the neighbours.
  不要这样穿戴着和我一起出去，你会使我成为邻居们的笑料的。
• You're the laughing stock of the entire fashion world.
  你成了时装界的笑柄。
• 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。
• He used to be a laughing stock in his class.
  他过去是班上的笑柄。