ridicule

1. V-T If you ridicule someone or ridicule their ideas or beliefs, you make fun of them in an unkind way. 嘲笑

I admired her all the more for allowing them to ridicule her and never striking back. 我更加欽佩她了，因?yàn)樗軌蛉菰S讓他們嘲笑她而從不回?fù)簟?/p>

2. N-UNCOUNT If someone or something is an object of ridicule or is held up to ridicule, someone makes fun of them in an unkind way. 嘲笑

As a heavy child, she became the object of ridicule from classmates. 作為一個(gè)胖孩子，她成了同學(xué)們的笑柄。