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

• And I am a laughing stock in my own town!
  而我成为了我自己城镇的笑柄！
• 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。
• 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 national team is a laughing stock, while the top-flight Chinese Super League ( CSL) produces a low grade product to dwindling audiences and has long been perceived as byword for corruption.
  中国国家队的战绩非常糟糕，已成为笑料，而中超联赛目前的人气不足，成为了腐败的代名词。
• However, as a developing country, the Chinese intellectual property rights infringement all over the country became the laughing stock of many intellectual property rights vested interest countries.
  然而，作为发展中国家，中国国内遍布的知识产权侵权行为及其在国际贸易上的渗透依然是不少知识产权既得利益国孜孜不倦的话题。
• In "a dream of red mansions", grandma Liu is a laughing stock in the eyes of many in the grand garden.
  《红楼梦》中，刘姥姥在大观园里是人们眼中的宝货。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。