laughing stock
laughing stock — 名詞
1. a person or thing that everyone makes fun of, usually after doing something fool
笑柄
被眾人嘲笑的人或事物
a person or thing that everyone makes fun of, usually after doing something foolish or failing badly in public.
After Benjamin tripped on stage and dropped the trophy, he became the school's laughing stock.
Benjamin 在台上絆倒、摔了獎盃後，成了全校的笑柄。
become the [group]'s laughing stock
Valentina's wild excuses made her the laughing stock of the whole office.
Valentina 那些誇張的藉口，讓她成為整間辦公室的笑柄。
The mayor's silly speech turned the small town into a national laughing stock overnight.
市長那場可笑的演講，一夜之間讓這座小鎮淪為全國的笑柄。
Nobody wanted to be the laughing stock, so the students rehearsed the play for weeks.
沒有人想成為笑柄，所以學生們排練了好幾個星期。
When the new phone kept crashing, the company quickly became a laughing stock among reviewers.
新手機不斷當機，這家公司很快就成了評論者口中的笑柄。
- object of ridicule
more formal; stresses being mocked rather than the failure that caused it
- butt of the joke
informal; the target of a single joke, often one-off rather than a lasting reputation
- figure of fun
British and milder; someone people find amusing, not necessarily after a public failure
文法句型
become a laughing stock
make somebody a laughing stock
the laughing stock of [group]
用法筆記
Almost always singular and used with 'a' or 'the'. The person or thing being mocked is the subject, and the mocking group follows with 'of' (the laughing stock of the village).