单词 | laugh |
释义 | laugh I. intransitive verb 1. a. < laughing loudly at a funny clown > < others … read for the sake of sarcastically laughing — Aldous Huxley > b. < laugh at the memory of an embarrassing encounter > c. < her eyes laughed > < he was laughing I knew though his face was … grave — George Meredith > — often used with at < a very skeptical public laughed at our early efforts — Graenum Berger > 2. a. < laughing voice > < laughing brook > < a cypress tree that laughed with all its leaves — Ruth Tomalin > b. < the blue sky of Autumn laughs above — Amy Lowell > transitive verb 1. < eat and drink … and laugh themselves fat — John Trapp > < this book laughs the littlest child into … manners — New York Herald Tribune > < laughed aside academic rules — C.V.Woodward > < laugh him to scorn > < laughed away the popular taste for bombast — Van Wyck Brooks > < a less able speaker would have been laughed off the stage — J.D.Hicks > 2. < laughs her consent > • - laugh in one's sleeve - laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth - laugh out of court II. 1. a. < the appealing look passed into a smile and the smile into a laugh — Thomas Hughes > < the laugh, however wry, goes deeper and hurts more than the snarl — Dudley Fitts > < the longest pause … followed by the longest laugh ever heard on radio — Goodman Ace > b. archaic < full of laugh, and must give it some vent — John Crowne > c. < rejoiced to see the first laugh of the fire — Leigh Hunt > < heard the laugh of a loon > 2. a. < the laugh of the twenties was my confident insistence that I would defeat Jack Dempsey — Gene Tunney > < a book with a laugh on page one — Bennett Cerf > < had the laugh on him then — David Fairchild > < rack their poor brains to get the laugh of us — George Meredith > b. < he failed to make good and they gave him the laugh > < even in the most straitlaced societies the laugh was against the husband — Edith Wharton > 3. laughs plural < girl mobsters beating up other girls simply for laughs — Newsweek > < when others might ridicule or overplay it for laughs, he can write breezily of a zealous nun — John Farrelly > |
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