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

• You should make yourself a laughing stock.
  你应该把自己变成一个笑柄。
• For a start you would be a laughing stock.
  首先，你会成为人们的笑料。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• What he didn't know was that it was Senior Skip Day, and if I showed my face on campus I would be a laughing stock.
  然而他不知道的是，今天是传统的“高年级逃课日”，如果我今天去上学，要被同学笑掉大牙的。
• 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。
• Talent can't take place of perseverance. A talent without contribution will only be a laughing stock.
  天才不能取代坚持，没有贡献的天才只会成为一个笑柄。
• 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。
• And I am a laughing stock in my own town!
  而我成为了我自己城镇的笑柄！