ridicule

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++rid·i·cule1 /ˈrɪdəkjuːl/ noun [uncountable]  MAKE FUN OFunkind laughter or remarks that are intended to make someone or something seem stupid 嘲笑，奚落 the ridicule of his peers 他同龄人的奚落 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 evoked skepticism and ridicule, both the sick and the curious continued to come.• Often they fear ridicule 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 nobody listened to him.• He criticized comedy 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 religious images could have suffered too.• The only safe object of ridicule was Inspector Fowler.ridicule2 verb [transitive]  MAKE FUN OFto laugh at a person, idea etc and say that they are stupid 嘲笑，奚落；讥笑 SYN mock At the time, his ideas were ridiculed. 当时他的观点被人讥笑。→ See Verb table

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ridicule• Joseph was ridiculed for being serious.• For a number of years she patiently withstood the abuse of her employers and fellow workers, who ridiculed her religious habits.• He felt so ashamed of his weakness, but George didn't ridicule him at all.• For decades, consultants, politicians, pilots and travelers have ridiculed Lindbergh Field.• Their fellow church members 73 ridiculed, shunned, or expelled them-sometimes all three.• Avoid insulting or ridiculing teenagers' efforts to be differ-ent.• Petrocelli ridiculed the police conspiracy theory.• Given the numbers of the disadvantaged, critics of Treasury ridicule the whole proposal.Origin ridicule1 (1600-1700) French Latin ridiculum “something funny”, from ridere “to laugh”

rid·i·cule1 nounridicule2 verbChineseSyllable  

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ridicule

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rid‧i‧cule¹ /ˈrɪdəkjuːl, ˈrɪdɪkjuːl/ noun [uncountable]unkind laughter or remarks that are intended to make someone or something seem stupid:
    the ridicule of his peers
    The government’s proposals were held up to ridicule (=suffered ridicule) by opposition ministers.
    He had become an object of ridicule among the other teachers.

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ridicule² verb [transitive]
to laugh at a person, idea etc and say that they are stupid
   SYN  mock:
    At the time, his ideas were ridiculed.
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ mock formal to laugh at and say unkind things about a person, institution, belief etc, to show that you do not have a high opinion of them. Mock is a formal word - in everyday English people usually say make fun of: The press mocked his attempts to appeal to young voters. | She was mocked by other pupils in her class. | You shouldn’t mock the afflicted! (=you should not make fun of people who cannot help having problems - used especially ironically, when really you think it is funny too)
   ▪ make fun of somebody/something to make someone or something seem stupid by making unkind jokes about them: Peter didn’t seem to realize that they were making fun of him. | It used to be fashionable to make fun of the European Parliament.
   ▪ laugh at somebody/something to make unkind or funny remarks about someone or something, because they seem stupid or strange: I don’t want the other kids to laugh at me. | People would laugh at the idea nowadays.
   ▪ poke fun at somebody/something to make someone or something seem silly by making jokes about them, especially in a way that is funny but not really cruel: a TV series that regularly poked fun at the government | He’s in no position to poke fun at other people’s use of English!
   ▪ ridicule formal to make unkind remarks that make someone or something seem stupid: Catesby ridiculed his suggestion. | His ideas were widely ridiculed at the time. | Scientists ridiculed him for doubting the existence of the greenhouse effect.
   ▪ deride formal to make remarks that show you think that something is stupid or useless - often used when you think that the people who do this are wrong: Some forms of alternative medicine – much derided by doctors – have been shown to help patients. | the system that Marxists previously derided as ‘bourgeois democracy’