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 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。
• His constant blunders made him the laughing stock of the whole class.
  他总是出错，成了全班的笑柄。
• For some, Feng may be too commercial at times – product placement in his movies is often conspicuous and has even become a laughing stock.
  对于一些人而言，冯小刚有时太过商业化了&他影片中的植入广告往往十分显眼，甚至这已经成为了一个笑柄。
• For a start you would be a laughing stock.
  首先，你会成为人们的笑料。
• 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 become the laughing stock when his pants split open.
  他的裤子开裂使他成为众人的笑柄。
• 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。
• What he didn't know was that it was Senior Skip Day, and if I showed my face on campus I would be a laughing stock.
  然而他不知道的是，今天是传统的“高年级逃课日”，如果我今天去上学，要被同学笑掉大牙的。
• 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。
• You may now become the laughing stock of fans all over the world!
  你现在成了全世界球迷的笑柄！