laughing stock

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In other respects, FIFA is a laughing stock, or worse.
在其他方麪，國(guó)際足聯(lián)就是個(gè)笑柄。
But he also admitted it had made him a laughing stock as people drew comparisons with him and Mr Plod from cartoon series Noddy from Toytown.
但他也承認(rèn)，他也因此成了人們的笑柄，他被人們比作動(dòng)畫片《諾弟來(lái)啦》裡麪的普拉先生。
A decade later they were a global laughing stock, riddled with the bad debts that helped to cripple Japan's economy and run by managers famed as world-class procrastinators.
十幾年後，日本銀行擁有使日本經(jīng)濟(jì)受到重創(chuàng)的大量壞賬和反應(yīng)遲鈍的琯理者，這讓日本銀行成爲(wèi)了全球的笑柄。

My answer: Well, let me tell you, last year Yahoo was a Silicon Valley laughing stock.
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Besides murdering and impoverishing his people, Amin also made his country a laughing stock.
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someone or something that seems stupid or silly, especially by trying to be serious or important and not succeeding

If you say that a person or an organization has become a laughing stock, you mean that they are supposed to be important or serious but have been made to seem ridiculous.