laughing stock

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈlɑː.fɪŋ ˌstɒk]
• 美式音标 [ˈlæf.ɪŋ ˌstɑːk]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 笑柄

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• In other respects, FIFA is a laughing stock, or worse.
  在其他方面，国际足联就是个笑柄。
• 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。
• A decade later they were a global laughing stock, riddled with the bad debts that helped to cripple Japan's economy and run by managers famed as world-class procrastinators.
  十几年后，日本银行拥有使日本经济受到重创的大量坏账和反应迟钝的管理者，这让日本银行成为了全球的笑柄。

权威例句

• My answer: Well, let me tell you, last year Yahoo was a Silicon Valley laughing stock.
  FORBES: An Open Letter To The Marissa Mayer Haters
• Besides murdering and impoverishing his people, Amin also made his country a laughing stock.
  ECONOMIST: Memories of Uganda's late despot are surprisingly short

词组短语

短语

• laughing g stock 笑柄
• laughing -stock 笑柄
• a laughing -stock down the centuries 遗笑千古
• make a laughing -stock of oneself 叫人笑掉大牙
• Past my laughing stock 不理我的笑柄

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• someone or something that seems stupid or silly, especially by trying to be serious or important and not succeeding

柯林斯英英字典

• If you say that a person or an organization has become a laughing stock, you mean that they are supposed to be important or serious but have been made to seem ridiculous.