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

• His constant blunders made him the laughing stock of the whole class.
  他总是出错，成了全班的笑柄。
• 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'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。
• 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。
• "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。
• She was so eager to get a promotion that she faked some of the results in her last research report and now she's a laughing stock among her colleagues.
  由于她迫切地想得到提升，她在上一次的研究报告里假报了一部份成果，结果现在她在同事们当中成了一个笑柄。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You're becoming a laughing stock.
  你正成为别人的笑柄。