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

• 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。
• 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。
• You should make yourself a laughing stock.
  你应该把自己变成一个笑柄。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 the laughing stock of the entire fashion world.
  你成了时装界的笑柄。
• His constant blunders made him the laughing stock of the whole class.
  他总是出错，成了全班的笑柄。