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're the laughing stock of the entire fashion world.
  你成了时装界的笑柄。
• 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。
• He used to be a laughing stock in his class.
  他过去是班上的笑柄。
• 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。
• 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。
• We will be the laughing stock.
  我们将成为别人的笑柄。
• 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。
• 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。
• For a start you would be a laughing stock.
  首先，你会成为人们的笑料。
• 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。