ridicule
英 ['rɪdɪkjuːl]
美 ['rɪdɪ'kjʊl]
- vt.笑いものにする；あざける；馬鹿にする
- n.あざける；笑いものにする；馬鹿にする
英語の語源
- ridicule (v.)
- 1680s, "make ridiculous," from ridicule (n.) or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule. Meaning "make fun of" is from c. 1700. Related: Ridiculed; ridiculing.
- ridicule (n.)
- 1670s, "absurd thing;" 1680s, "words or actions meant to invoke ridicule," from French ridicule, noun use of adjective (15c.), or from Latin ridiculum "laughing matter, joke," from noun use of neuter of ridiculus (see ridiculous).
"He who brings ridicule to bear against truth, finds in his hand a blade without a hilt." [Walter Savage Landor, "Imaginary Conversations"]
例文
- 1. The process of judicial selection was held up to ridicule .
- 司法選挙の過程が笑いものになった。
- 2.The gutter press has held the royals up to ridicule .
- 黄色の新聞は公然と皇室のメンバーを揶揄している。
- 3.Such a statement could lay her open to ridicule .
- という言葉は彼女を笑わせる。
- 4.As a heavy child,she became the object of ridicule from classmates.
- 太っているため、彼女はクラスメイトの嘲笑の対象になった。
- 5.Davis was subjected to public ridicule .
- Davisはみんなから揶揄された。