笑柄

Would you have him a common laughing-stock, mocked and jeered at by stoats and weasels?

难道你愿意看着他成为大伙儿的笑柄，被白鼬和黄鼠狼奚落吗？

The latter is a laughing-stock, while the former is stocking laughs.

如何区分一个喜剧演员和一个荒唐的人？后者是笑柄，前者提供笑料。

1 I have become the sport of my neighbors:"The one whom God answers when he calls upon him, The just, the perfect man," is a laughing-stock

我这呼吁天主而蒙应允的人，却被他的友人所嘲笑，无辜的义人却成了笑柄。

The mayor vetoed it, saying that El Paso would be a laughing-stock.

市长提出否决，并称埃尔帕索将会因此成为一个笑柄。

In any case it is certain from the "Festal Letters" of St. Athanasius that in 331 the saint enjoined upon his flock a period of forty days of fasting preliminary to, but not inclusive of, the stricter fast of Holy Week, and secondly that in 339 the same Father, after having traveled to Rome and over the greater part of Europe, wrote in the strongest terms to urge this observance upon the people of Alexandria as one that was universally practiced,"to the end that while all the world is fasting, we who are in Egypt should not become a laughing-stock as the only people who do not fast but take our pleasure in those days".

在任何情况下，可以肯定的，由"节日字母"圣athanasius在331圣人受命后，他的羊群，为期四十天的斋戒初步的，但不是包容的，更严格的快的圣周，其次是认为在339个同一个父亲，之后前往罗马，并在更大的欧洲的一部分，写以最强烈的措辞敦促遵守本后，人的亚历山德里亚，作为一个被普遍实行的"，至去年底，虽然世界上所有的是斋戒，我们是在埃及不应成为一个笑柄，因为只有那些没有速度快，而且以我们最大的荣幸，在那些日子"。

Under the previous government, led by the late president's twin brother Jaroslaw, Poland was turning into a laughing-stock.

在已故总统的孪生哥哥罗斯拉夫领导的前任政府统治下，波兰变成了笑柄。

Unfortunately, the bungling inefficiency of these amateur detectives has turned the International Space Police Force into a worldwide laughing-stock, and earned them the nickname "Star Cops".

不幸的是，这些笨拙无能的业余侦探让国际空间警察局变成了一个世界性的笑柄，他们获得了一个昵称星际警察。

For it was generally reported that he inquired about this dedication solely for the purpose of destroying it , hoping thereby to bring on the war; for he had been told that there was a prophesy that the Marcomannic war should be ended by an Antoninus -- whereas he was called Varius , and Elagabalus and a public laughing-stock , and he was , moreover , a disgrace to the name of Antoninus , on which he had laid violent hands.

因为通常认为，他问这奉献只是为了破坏它，从而挑起战争；因为他被告知有一个预言，马科曼尼战争应该被一位安东尼结束--而他被称为瓦瑞斯，和埃拉伽巴卢斯，成为公众的笑柄，此外还是安东尼的耻辱，对此他强烈不满。

Now came peace in Sherwood, for King John and the barons were too busy fighting each other to spare men for clearing off Robin Hood's band, and Simon Ganmere, the new Sheriff of Nottingham, though he sent bodies of men after them once or twice, got worsted so much that, rather than make himself a laughing-stock, he left them alone.

现在和平来到修武德，因为约翰国王和男爵们彼此忙着打仗，无人可用去清除罗宾汉的人，诺丁汉的新郡长西蒙干密尔虽然一两次派几团人去追捕他们，但吃了太多败仗，使得他自己成为笑柄，于是他留下他们不管了。

You're only going to make me a laughingstock. Why don't you just die?

你这样只会让我成为别人的笑柄，你干嘛不去死呢？

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷