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

• And I am a laughing stock in my own town!
  而我成为了我自己城镇的笑柄！
• 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。
• You're becoming a laughing stock.
  你正成为别人的笑柄。
• 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！
• 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。
• You should make yourself a laughing stock.
  你应该把自己变成一个笑柄。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。