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单词 laugh
释义 laugh
I. \ˈlaf, -aa(ə)-, -ai-, -ȧ-, -ä-\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English laughen, from Old English hliehhan, hlehhan, hlæhan; akin to Old High German lachēn to laugh, Old Norse hlæja, Gothic hlahjan to laugh, Old English hlōwan to moo — more at low
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to give audible expression to an emotion (as mirth, joy, derision, embarrassment, or fright) by the expulsion of air from the lungs resulting in sounds ranging from an explosive guffaw to a muffled titter and usually accompanied by movements of the mouth or facial muscles and a lighting up of the eyes
  < laughing loudly at a funny clown >
  < others … read for the sake of sarcastically laughing — Aldous Huxley >
 b. : to find amusement or pleasure in something : enjoy oneself
  < laugh at the memory of an embarrassing encounter >
 c. : to become amused or derisive
  < 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. : to produce the sound or appearance of laughter
  < laughing voice >
  < laughing brook >
  < a cypress tree that laughed with all its leaves — Ruth Tomalin >
 b. : to be of a kind that inspires joy
  < the blue sky of Autumn laughs above — Amy Lowell >
transitive verb
1. : to bring to a specified state by laughing
 < 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. : to utter laughingly
 < laughs her consent >

- laugh in one's sleeve
- laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
- laugh out of court
II. noun
(-s)
1.
 a. : an act or instance of laughing
  < 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 : a disposition to laughter : hilarity
  < full of laugh, and must give it some vent — John Crowne >
 c. : something that resembles a laugh
  < rejoiced to see the first laugh of the fire — Leigh Hunt >
  < heard the laugh of a loon >
2.
 a. : a cause for derision or merriment : joke, advantage
  < 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. : an expression of scorn or mockery : jeer
  < 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 : a means of entertainment : diversion, sport
 < girl mobsters beating up other girls simply for laughsNewsweek >
 < when others might ridicule or overplay it for laughs, he can write breezily of a zealous nun — John Farrelly >
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