| 单词 | laughable |
| 释义 | laugh·able < antique finery, which would have been laughable on another woman — W.H.Hudson †1922 > Synonyms: < considered it a laughable affair, and was continually bobbing his head out the galley door to make jocose remarks — Jack London > < the lower classes aped the rigid decorum of their “betters” with laughable results — Harrison Smith > risible is a close synonym for laughable, also lacking special connotation < has some risible material that she delivers well — New Yorker > funny describes that which occasions laughter especially through obvious peculiarity or absurdity < where a funny little happy-go-lucky, native-managed railway runs to Jodhpore — Rudyard Kipling > < children thought he was a very funny old Chinaman, as children always think anything old and strange is funny — John Steinbeck > droll indicates laughable qualities arising from either odd quaintness or arch waggishness < a serious child with a droll adult expression > < are apt to take on a droll sly humor, especially those “tall tales” of exaggeration — American Guide Series: North Carolina > comical describes that which elicits spontaneous hilarity < the abrupt transition of her features from assured pride to ludicrous astonishment and alarm was comical enough to have sent into wild uncharitable laughter any creature less humane — Arnold Bennett > < gave his figure a comical air of having been loosely and inaccurately strung together from a selection of stuffed bags of cloth — Leslie Charteris > comic is sometimes a close synonym of comical but may differ from it in applying to that which calls for a degree of reflection and occasions more thoughtful mirth < people laugh at absurdities that are very far from being comic — Joseph Conrad > farcical applies to that which is so extravagant or extreme as to provoke laughter or derision < the cases described in the preceding pages are mainly farcical in their extravagance — Aldous Huxley > < almost farcical to suppose that Henry, as a Norman prince, could not talk his own language to his Norman bride — William Empson > ridiculous describes that which is derided as vain or inappropriate < to be always harping on nationality is to convert what should be a recognition of natural conditions into a ridiculous pride in one's own oddities — George Santayana > < formed a humorous compound consisting of 168 letters, a thing that would be ridiculous rather than funny in English — E.S.McCartney > ludicrous indicates that which is so absurd or preposterous that it excites both laughter and scorn < enacted a scene as ludicrous as it was pitiable — Charles Kingsley > < had friendships, one after another, so violent as to be often ludicrous — Hilaire Belloc > |
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