sth looked laughably archaic

看起来古老得可笑的东西.

That plane itself looks almost laughably archaic.

那架飞机真可笑,看起来简直像个老古董。

A laughably stupid blunder.

愚蠢可笑的错误

In the same way, the value of the winning firm, which looked laughably high during the bubble, will later look reasonable.

同样，大获全胜的公司在泡沫其间看上去高得可笑的估值，后来会看起来是合理的。

No matter how brilliant you think you may be, the day will come when you will be told in no uncertain terms that you are laughably wrong.

不管你认为自己多聪明，总有一天，生活都会毫不留情地告诉你你是错的。

It was only the laughably small payments that caused problems.

导致问题的原因是报酬实在少得可笑。

SEPA's impotence is one reason why penalties, even when it can impose them, remain laughably light.

国家环保局缺乏权利就是为什么罚款、即使能罚也少的可笑的原因之一。

Economists have tended to content themselves with a laughably simple picture of human motivation, rationality and well-being.

经济学家往往把自己与一个可笑而又简单的人的理性和幸福的动机画面联系在一起。

However, healthy companies that did not need loans were finding it laughably easy to raise money.

然而，那些并不需要贷款的健康公司却发现筹集资金非常容易。

is currently laughably lenient, I do not not think capital punishment is the way to go. . .

虽然我同意当前英国的司法系统是极度仁慈，同时我也不支持死刑。

What he laughably calls "a roadmap to democracy" looks like a succession plan. That makes it unpredictable.

他笑称的“民主路线图”看起来就像是一个接任计划，因而变得不可预测。

Although laughably primitive by today's standards, in 1972 the IBM mainframe felt like the future.

以今天的标准来看，这可能有点可笑，但在1972年，IBM的机器就像是来自未来。

That was far more optimistic than other forecasts at the time it was published, and quickly became laughably Panglossian.

这远乐观于与其同期公布的其他机构的预测，很快成为了可笑的潘格洛斯。

That is laughably overblown, not least because Westminster's first-past-the-post system makes it much harder for them to win even one.

这种吹嘘只能让人笑话，尤其是在英国议会的简单多数获胜制下，他们要夺得哪怕一个席位都是难上加难。