笑柄

Perhaps they were the Egibi family in Babylon as early as the 7th century BC, though a more plausible case can be made for Pasion, an Athenian contemporary of Socrates at the start of the 4th century BC, when bankers were already the butt of music-hall humour ("the most pestilential of all trades").

也许他们是早在公元前7世纪位于巴比伦的Egibi家族，然而也有可能是Pasion，他是一位公元前4世纪之初与苏格拉底同时代的雅典人，那时银行家们就已成为了杂耍搞笑戏院（所有职业中最伤风败俗的一种）中的笑柄。

This means that astronauts Silent operating valves for air and gas pipeline systems will now again be able to rely on the machine for their daily needs, after numerous delays and glitches made the recycler the laughing stock of the entire world, getting widespread attention in the press and on the Internet.

这意味着，宇航员现在又可以在计算机上依靠他们的日常需要，经过无数次的拖延和故障使回收的整个世界的笑柄，让在媒体广泛关注，并在互联网上。

Maybe it would be a ridicule in the company.

这也许会成为公司的一大笑柄。

He was regarded as an object of ridicule.

他被视为笑柄。

Take the early "schematization" for example, an abundance of similar symbolized schemas were duplicated in faith that the forerunners' success ensures theirselves, totally disregarding that the real question is self questioning and issuing what no one issues, to parrot what other says only makes one a laughing stock and is the manifest of extremely lacking of creativity; surely there still another type of art exists, seemingly novel but not actually raising any question, but in blind pursuit of the shocking, monstrous effect of the form, which as well can only be deemed as superficial.

比如因为早期"图式化"的成功表达，便大量复制类似的符号化图式，仿佛前人的成功便能够保证类似问题的当下成功，而全然不考虑真正的问题是从自我出发，发人所未发的问题或视角，重复别人已经提出的问题，只能落下"鹦鹉学舌"的笑柄，是缺乏创造性的极端表现；当然，还有一类貌似新颖，实际并未提问的艺术在一味追求表达形式的惊人、怪异中，同样流于肤浅之弊。

He was the scoff of the town.

他成为全城的笑柄。

He was the scoff of the to wn.

他成为全城的笑柄。

He became the laughing stock when his pants split open.

他的裤子开裂使他成为众多人的笑柄。

He becomes the laughing stock when his pants split open.

他的裤子开裂使他成为众人的笑柄。

The Chinese are investing in progress while we disinvest in America and the American people.

我们的行为和拙劣的外交、国内政策正使我们成为世界舞台上的笑柄。

If you are unfortunate enough to the lovelorn, please tell me, I will help you out, really, please contact me!

如果你不幸失恋了，请告诉我，我会帮助你摆脱困境，真的，请联系我啦！

China's plan to cut energy intensity by 20 percent and pollutant discharges by 10 percent between 2006 and 2010 is a case in point.

中国计划在2006年到2010间降低20%的能源强度和减少10%的主要污染物排放，就是一个这样的例子。