--The mockery of it, he said contentedly, secondleg they should be

“不是什么正经玩艺儿，”他沾沾自喜地说，“应该叫作二腿货。

--The mockery of it, he said gaily

“多可笑。”他快活地说。

[14] This couplet is from Lu Hsun’s “In Mockery of Myself” in The Collection Outside the Collection, Complete Works, Chin. ed., Vol.VII.[p.96]

〔14〕见鲁迅《集外集·自嘲》(《鲁迅全集》第7卷，人民文学出版社1981年版，第147页)。

Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

嗷嗷待哺的孩子、被压迫者鞭挞的受害者、孤苦无助的老人--他们是儿女们憎恶的负担。还有那充满着孤独、贫穷和痛苦的世界，都在嘲弄着人类生活本应有的美好。

make a mockery of sb

把某人作为笑柄.

make a mockery of

嘲弄, 把...作笑料; 糟踏

hold sb. [sth.] up to mockery

嘲笑某人 [某事]

His trial was a mockery of justice.

对他的审判是对正义的践踏。

The few packages of food seemed a mockery in the face of such enormous destitution.

对于众多赤贫的人们，这几袋食物简直是杯水车薪

The judge’s frequent interventions made a mockery of justice.

法官的屡屡干预是对正义的践踏。

The unfair and hasty decision of the court made a mockery of the trial

法院匆促做出的不公正裁决使这次审判形同儿戏

Democracy as practised in the Philippines really makes a mockery of the system!

菲律宾式的民主，真是对民主政制的莫大讽刺

It was as if an evil spirit possessed the child, and had just then peeped forth in mockery . Many a time afterwards had Hester been tortured, though less vividly, by the same illusion.

刚才就象有一个邪恶精灵附在了孩子身上,并且探出头来嘲弄地望着她。事后,海丝特曾多次受到同一幻觉的折磨,不过那幻觉没有那么活生生地强烈了。

Words mulligan had spoken a moment since in mockery to the stranger

刚才穆利根就曾用此活来嘲弄这位陌生人。

Cuillaume had treated woman with adoration, and Jean with mockery , and Chaucer remembered both ways in his own verses

吉约姆对妇女尊崇，吉恩则加以嘲笑，而乔叟在他的诗里则兼而有之。

She spoke with that gentle infinitesimal inflexion of mockery which descended to her from her mother

她说话时，带着她母亲传给她的那种温柔细致的嘲笑语调。

She spoke with that gentle, infinitesimal inflexion of mockery which descended to her from her mother

她说着话，带着她母亲传给她的那种温柔细致的嘲笑语调。

made a mockery of the accountability system

令问责制破产/蒙羞

Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule

每一个空谈家、每一个煽动家、每一

The unfair trial was a mockery of justice.

那不公平的审判是对公正的一种蔑视。

That examination was a mockery , they all copied from the books

那次考试完全是骗人的鬼把戏，他们都抄书。

The black, semitic eyes gazed at Yasha with a sort of knowing mockery

那双闪米特人的黑眼睛盯住了雅夏看，流露出一丝心领神会的嘲笑。

Made a mockery of the rules.

取笑这些规划

Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be

忍饥挨饿的儿童，统治者折磨下的受难者，成为儿子们眼中钉、无助的老人们，以及满世界的孤独、贫困和痛苦都是人类理想生活的反讽。

Whereas this makes you a welcome companion to women, in the eyes of the world it is bound to make you appear strange and unnatural, an object of mockery and scorn.

汝今独得此二字,在闺阁中,固可为良友,然于世道中未免迂阔怪诡,百口嘲谤,万目睚眦.

Good-humoured mockery seems to be a proper rod but great caution and skill are necessary in the use of it or you may happen to catch a tartar.

善意的嘲笑看起来是一根合适的棍棒，但运用时必须非常谨慎，并注意技巧，否则你可能骑虎难下。

hold sb (sth) up to mockery

使某人(某物)被嘲笑.

Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery ?

谁敢用这种该死的玩笑来侮辱我们

When he closed his eyes, he could see Ho Shen-an’s flabby round face with its leering smile---a smile which he now realized to be one of mockery ...

他闭了眼睛，当面就浮现出何慎庵那浮胖的圆脸和怪样的微笑;这笑，现在看去是很有讽刺的意味了!--

He continued with his plan to build a flying machine, in spite of the mockery of his friends

他不顾朋友们的反对，继续他建造飞行器的计划。

self-mockery

自嘲

make a mockery of

1.使成为徒劳