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

• Talent can't take place of perseverance. A talent without contribution will only be a laughing stock.
  天才不能取代坚持，没有贡献的天才只会成为一个笑柄。
• The national team is a laughing stock, while the top-flight Chinese Super League ( CSL) produces a low grade product to dwindling audiences and has long been perceived as byword for corruption.
  中国国家队的战绩非常糟糕，已成为笑料，而中超联赛目前的人气不足，成为了腐败的代名词。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In "a dream of red mansions", grandma Liu is a laughing stock in the eyes of many in the grand garden.
  《红楼梦》中，刘姥姥在大观园里是人们眼中的宝货。
• The repaired$ 2 billion Hubble Space Telescope, once the laughing stock of the scientific community, had snared its most elusive prize: a black hole.
  修复的20亿美元的哈勃太空望远镜，曾是科学界的笑柄，已经诱捕最难以捉摸的奖品：一个黑洞。
• 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。
• And I am a laughing stock in my own town!
  而我成为了我自己城镇的笑柄！