No one wants to be a punchline, a cliche, a basket case.

没有人希望成为别人的笑，或是一个老套的人，或是一个神经紧张的人。

If you met Socrates, you thus might end up being made a fool of publicly.

于是，对于某些人而言，与苏格拉底谈话无异于当众出丑并成为众人的笑。

People will look at you, thinking you are funny.

否则，你就会被大家盯着，沦为笑。

What! they who had cruelly been made the laughingstock of the public, forget the wrong and favor the wrongdoer?

天呀！被公众无情耻笑、留作笑的格拉特兄弟岂能忘记过错方的肆意诽谤与行为卑劣？

If I came to work in a suit I would be a 'laughing stock'-I mean, I would be seen as someone who people think of as silly.

如果我穿着西装上班，那么我会成为一个“笑”——我的意思是，我会被看做人们眼中愚蠢的人。

You can even be the butt of a joke.

你甚至可以成为笑话的笑。

" Maybe Malfoy he'd think it was a laugh."

“大概是马尔福吧，他会觉得这是一个笑。”

In the court, these stifled reforms turned Franz Ferdinand into a laughing stock.

在法庭上，这些令人窒息的改革让弗朗茨·斐迪南成了笑。

No one, not even a professional comedian, wants to be a laughingstock.

没有人想成为笑，是专业的喜剧演员也不想当笑。

I'd be the laughingstock of the young astronomer's club.

不然会成为小天学家俱乐部的笑。

He threatened to expose my past, to make me a laughing stock in this house.

他威胁要捅出我的过去，让我成为唐顿的笑。

He'll be the laughingstock of cell block X.

他会变成重监牢房的笑。

That has sometimes had dire consequences: Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have suffered such frequent losses from scandals and exposure to dubious clients that they have become the butt of industry jokes.

瑞士信贷(Credit Suisse)和德意志银行(Deutsche Bank)曾因丑闻和可疑客户的曝光而频繁遭受亏损，以至于它们成了业界的笑。

Over 500 years ago Hieronymous Bosch in 'The Conjurer' artfully depicts the following Flemish proverb: 'He who lets himself be fooled by conjuring tricks, loses his money and becomes the laughing stock of children.'

500 多年前，博斯（Hieronymous Bosch）在《魔术师》中艺术地描绘了以下佛兰德谚语：" 谁让自己被变戏法的把戏愚弄，谁就会失去金钱，成为孩子们的笑。

And that's what I think is special about the show is finally you've got this show, " Abbott Elementary" where the teachers are not the butt of the joke. - Yeah.

我觉得这部剧的特别之处在于终于有了《小学风云》这部剧，老师们不再是笑了。- 是的。

And there's a period of time, it's hard to imagine today, when he was more or less a laughing stock of Silicon Valley.

现在看来很难想象，但有那么一段时间，他差不多是硅谷众人皆知的笑。

Its new name remains unclear, but the jokes all but wrote themselves: the Washington Pundits, Kickbacks, Internal Polls (which would, of course, always show them ahead).

红人队的新名字尚不明确，但是有些名字与他们自身的笑相关：华盛顿权威人士、回扣、内部民调（当然，这样的名字始终显示在前面）。

God! God! God! —crack my heart! —stave my brain! — mockery! mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old?

上帝！上帝！上帝！——伤透了我的心！——打冒了我的脑浆！——笑！笑！这白发真是痛苦辛辣的笑，我是不是过得太高兴了才生出了你，才显得、才感觉老得不可忍受？

Take for example how Bob, who is this kind of outsider character who would normally be the butt of the joke, is almost immediately accepted as part of the group here.

以鲍勃为例，他是一个局外人，通常会成为笑话的笑，但在这里，他几乎立被接受为群体的一部分。

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

在我当时年幼无知，睥睨一切的目光中，一个人陷入爱情而又不自己成为笑，三十五岁是最大的年限。