笑料 (xiào liào) — (noun) something that makes people laugh; a joke; comic material; (noun) a laughingstock; an object of ridicule
Definition
Noun for comic material or a laughingstock — the 'stuff that makes people laugh,' or a person everyone ridicules. In sense 2, the subject is being mocked, not laughing.
noun
something that makes people laugha jokecomic materiala laughingstockan object of ridicule
Measure word · 个
Examples
- 笑料，。Zhè ge xiàng sheng yǒu hěn duō xiào liào, guān zhòng xiào dé tíng bú xià lái.This crosstalk has a lot of funny bits; the audience couldn't stop laughing.
- 笑料。Tā yīn wèi shuō cuò huà chéng le quán gōng sī de xiào liào.He became the laughingstock of the whole company because he said the wrong thing.
- 笑料，。Biān jù zài jù běn lǐ jiā le bù shǎo xiào liào, ràng jù qíng gèng qīng sōng.The screenwriter added quite a few jokes to the script to make the plot lighter.
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