| 词汇 | mockery |
| 释义 | mockery noun uk /ˈmɒk.ər.i/ us /ˈmɑː.kɚ.i/ [ U ] the act of mocking someone or something: 嘲笑，讥笑;模仿 Bill's mockery of his dad was cruel, but it made us laugh.比尔模仿他爸爸的做法有点残忍，不过我们都被逗笑了。 [ S ] an action or event that seems stupid and without value : 嘲笑对象，笑柄 The trial was a mockery - the judge had decided the verdict before it began.这次审判为人耻笑——法官在审判开始前就作出了判决。 Mocking and taunting caricature deride deride someone/something as something derision derisive lampoon lay yourself open to ridiculeidiom make a mockery of somethingidiom make a monkey out of someoneidiom mimic mimicry mock mocking piss sardonically scoff scoffer self-caricature self-mockery tauntingly You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Failures Idiommake a mockery of something mockery | American Dictionarymockery noun[ U ] us/ˈmɑk·ər·i/ mockerynoun[U] (INSULT)unkind, critical remarks or actions, or something so foolish that it can be easily criticized: The renewed fighting made a mockery of the peace agreement (= made it look ridiculous). Examples of mockerymockery One of the mockeries of the present age is that it is said that devaluation is an opportunity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We may be called upon, if we recognise this minimum wage, to consider whether the wages already granted are not vain and idle mockeries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If she does, she will find many mockeries already within the two and three-mile limits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once organized they were able to arrange punitive expeditions to the other quarters to punish the local boys for the mockeries. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Without some level of promulgation, and of publication, he says, the practice of legislation is 'a cruel mockery'. I am glad that someone sneaks in there and makes a mockery of the business. The granting of amnesty and government posts to the rebels made a mockery of the basic principles of human rights and democracy. The second two ke9ilu tokens (275), however, are a self-mockery of her own abundant use of ke9ilu. A cunningly devised mockery of freedom is guaranteed to them, and that is all. Rendering artists impotent through mockery and stereotyping (what is there to be afraid of ?). To refuse to grab such an opportunity to make a fortune is to make oneself an object of reproach in some cases or of mockery in others. The worst thing an orator could do was to sound only rehearsed or ' memorized'; to be caught speaking entirely by rote was to invite mockery and condemnation. However, neither his language nor his attitude shows undiluted mockery. I tried to conjure up in my mind pictures of noctur nal landscapes, giving way to bloodstained quasi-ecclesiastical imagery and cruel mockery, returning f inally to nostalgia and sunlit warmth. Articulating the culturally current association between women and horses, opponents of fashionable dress attempted through moralizing mockery to expose its fatuous character and make clear their own superior sensibilities. See all examples of mockery These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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