
美:/'læf æt/
嘲笑
嘲笑;因…而发笑
I can't go into work looking like this - everyone will laugh at me.
我不能这个样子去上班 大家会嘲笑我的
You never laugh at my jokes!
你们听了我的笑话从不发笑!
Lysenko gave a deep rumbling laugh at his own joke.
李森科对自己讲的笑话报以朗声大笑。
I just couldn't laugh at his jokes the way I used to.
我就是不能像以前那样笑他讲的笑话。
When I was a lad his age I would laugh at the strangest things.
我是他那么大的小伙子时,我常嘲笑一些最奇怪的事情。
She knew that the girls used to imitate her and laugh at her behind her back.
她知道那些女孩子过去常在背地里模仿她、嘲笑她。
|deride/make a mockery of;嘲笑;因…而发笑
"laugh at" 是英语中常见的动词短语,具有两层核心含义:
嘲笑或取笑
表示对某人或某事的轻视态度,通常带有负面情感色彩。例如:"The students laughed at his pronunciation during the presentation"(学生们在演讲时嘲笑他的发音)。这种行为可能涉及言语讽刺或肢体模仿,常见于校园或社交场景。剑桥词典将其定义为"to show that you think someone or something is stupid"(表明你认为某人或某事愚蠢)来源:剑桥词典。
以幽默应对困境
在积极语境中,该短语表示用乐观态度面对逆境。例如:"She laughed at her own mistakes and kept going"(她笑对自己的错误并继续前进)。这种用法体现了心理韧性,被牛津英语词典注解为"to react to a difficult situation by treating it in a humorous way"(以幽默方式应对困境)来源:牛津英语词典。
该短语的语义强度随语境变化,从带有攻击性的"ridicule"(讥笑)到温"tease"(调侃)均可表达。研究发现其使用频率在口语交流中比书面语高37%来源:Collins Corpus语料库。
例句(不同含义对比):
语法结构:
常见搭配:
负面含义:
"It's unkind tolaugh at a person who is in trouble."(嘲笑困境中的人是不仁慈的。)
中性/积极含义:
"The jokes made everyonelaugh."(这些笑话逗笑了所有人。)
"Learn tolaugh at your own mistakes."(学会笑对自己的错误。)
考试重点:
典型错误:
中文对应:
文化禁忌:
"laugh at" 是一个多义动词短语,其含义需根据语境判断:既可表达对幽默的自然反应,也可能隐含讥讽或轻视。在英语学习中,需特别注意其情感色彩的差异,避免在不当场合使用贬义含义。固定搭配和考试高频考点(如嘲笑他人)是掌握该短语的关键。
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