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。
• 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。
• You should make yourself a laughing stock.
  你应该把自己变成一个笑柄。
• He become the laughing stock when his pants split open.
  他的裤子开裂使他成为众人的笑柄。
• The source told the Enquirer that Todd feels like he's been made a laughing stock as the hook up had become a joke on late night TV and was all over the internet.
  《国家询问报》得到消息称，由于这起性丑闻成为夜间电视节目的笑话，还传遍网络，托德感觉自己成了众人的笑柄。
• For a start you would be a laughing stock.
  首先，你会成为人们的笑料。
• 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。
• He used to be a laughing stock in his class.
  他过去是班上的笑柄。
• 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。
• Today, HP is no longer the laughing stock it once was in the corporate director community.
  如今，惠普不再是公司董事会团体里的笑柄。