| 词组 | laugh |
| 释义 | laugh The verb laugh, when used intransitively with a preposition whose object is what caused the laughter, is usually used with at: • ... the ridiculous, le rire, the comic is what we laugh at —John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934 • ... a butt, a clod, laughed at by looking-glasses — Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts, 1941 • ... a professor on this side of the Atlantic would be laughed at in the English weeklies —E. K. Brown, Rhythm in the Novel, 1950 It seems clear that laugh is still used idiomatically with over; most of our evidence for it, however, is old: • ... let us every one go home And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire —Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1601 • Have you forgotten about ... that capital story you told of the large loaf. A hundred times since, I have laughed over it —Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man, 1857 |
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