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单词 to turn into ridicule
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to turn into (also to) ridicule
2. to turn into (also to) ridicule: to make a mockery of someone or something; to cause to appear ridiculous. Now rare.
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1667 News from Dunkirk-House (single sheet) I disliked and complained of the Liberty they took to themselves of..turning all things serious and secret into Ridicule.
1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iii. i. 35 Methinks I'm to be turn'd into ridicule by all that see me.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 437 The very naming of them is almost sufficient to turn them into ridicule.
1822 G. C. tr. J.-B. Louvet de Couvray Amours Chevalier de Faublas IV. 208 I question who will have the last laugh, M. de Rosambert; for let me tell you, I don't like to be turned into ridicule.
1891 E. Gerard & D. Gerard Sensitive Plant I. ii. vii. 276 Does any one turn the true poet..into ridicule?
a1914 ‘M. Field’ In Name of Time (1919) v. 88 Ten years, a year—and all is found defeat In any life, all turned to ridicule.
1964 P. P. Wiener Nakamura's Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples xxxiv. 406 The Japanese turn into ridicule indiscriminately a Buddha, the Seven Deities of Good Luck, or whatever else is transplanted from abroad.
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