| 英语单词 | laughable |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['lɑːfəbl] 美 ['læfəbl] |
| 中文释义 | adj.可笑的;有趣的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Such ignorance is truly laughable. (2) This is the most laughable thing in my life. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这种无知确实很可笑。 (2) 这是我一生中最好笑的一件事。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If something is so absurd or ridiculous that it makes you laugh, you can call it laughable. Your little sister's idea of dropping out of elementary school and starting a full-time lemonade stand might seem laughable to you. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Your friend's preposterous plan to live in a tree all summer is laughable, and a politician's proposal to build a wall around the entire country to keep immigrants out is laughable too. You can also use this adjective to simply mean "funny," or "provoking laughter." Laughable comes from laugh, which has an Old English root and was originally pronounced with a hard g sound. The pronunciation changed, but the spelling stayed the same. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]可笑的;滑稽的;荒唐的 If you say that something such as an idea or suggestion is laughable, you mean that it is so stupid as to be funny and not worth serious consideration. [usu v-link ADJ]
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