The government’s proposals were held up to ridicule (=suffered ridicule) by opposition ministers.
政府的提案遭到反对党部长们的嘲笑。
He had become an object of ridicule among the other teachers.
他成了其他教师嘲笑的对象。
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ridicule• Even when such claims evokedskepticism and ridicule, both the sick and the curious continued to come.• Often they fearridicule or a rebuttal.• His looks, his temperament, his background - even his name marked him off for ridicule.• Willie just cries out for ridicule, don't you think?• Unfortunately Piggy had been demoted to an object of ridicule by this point in the book so nobodylistened to him.• He criticizedcomedy because it was based on ridicule.• Months of pampering and the ridicule of my cousins had turned me inward.• If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
object of ridicule• He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule, condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay.• Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land.• She became an object of ridicule.• Unfortunately Piggy had been demoted to an object of ridicule by this point in the book so nobody listened to him.• It had not escaped Cecilia's notice that to many people, even today, old women are objects of ridicule.• If the cucullati could be depicted as objects of ridicule, other religiousimages could have suffered too.• The only safeobject of ridicule was Inspector Fowler.
ridicule2 verb [transitiveT]
MAKE FUN OFto laugh at a person, idea etc and say that they are stupid 嘲笑,奚落;讥笑SYN mock