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 becoming a laughing stock.
  你正成为别人的笑柄。
• 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。
• 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 the laughing stock of the entire fashion world.
  你成了时装界的笑柄。
• 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。
• His constant blunders made him the laughing stock of the whole class.
  他总是出错，成了全班的笑柄。
• 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。
• We will be the laughing stock.
  我们将成为别人的笑柄。
• 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。
• 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。