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

• 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。
• His constant blunders made him the laughing stock of the whole class.
  他总是出错，成了全班的笑柄。
• 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。
• For a start you would be a laughing stock.
  首先，你会成为人们的笑料。
• 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'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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You're becoming a laughing stock.
  你正成为别人的笑柄。