Vocab Bloom Hub

laugh off

/læf ɒf/

翻译: 指对某事一笑置之,把它当作不重要或可笑的事,通常是不认真对待、不放在心上。

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词语关系

verb

/læf ɒf/B2formal
  • zh指对某事一笑置之,把它当作不重要或可笑的事,通常是不认真对待、不放在心上。

A phrasal verb used to indicate dismissing or treating something as unimportant or amusing, often to avoid taking it seriously.

不可数 · 及物 · 短语动词,可分

  1. Dismiss with humorinformal

    To treat something serious or embarrassing as a joke to avoid dealing with it.

    zh一笑置之

    • He tried to laugh off the criticism from his boss.
    • She laughed off the awkward comment at the party.
    • They laughed off the mistake and moved on.

    同义词brush offshrug offtrivialize

    反义词acknowledgeaddressconfrontfaceheed

  2. Ignore or minimizeinformal

    To pretend something is not important or serious by laughing.

    zh一笑置之

    • She laughed off the rumors about her promotion.
    • He laughed off the pain from the injury.
    • They laughed off the threat as a joke.

    同义词belittlebrush offdismissdisregarddownplayminimizeplay downpooh-poohshrug off

    反义词acknowledgeaddressconfrontheed

词形
  • laughed off past participle
  • laughed off past simple
  • laughing off present participle
  • laughs off third person singular

基本动词laugh

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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