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

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。
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。
We will be the laughing stock.
我们将成为别人的笑柄。
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。
He used to be a laughing stock in his class.
他过去是班上的笑柄。
You should make yourself a laughing stock.
你应该把自己变成一个笑柄。
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。
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。
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。
His constant blunders made him the laughing stock of the whole class.
他总是出错，成了全班的笑柄。