ridicule
英検準1級あざ笑う・嘲笑
意味
- あざけり,あざ笑い
- 〈人・物事〉をあざける,あざ笑う
例文
It is mean of you to ridicule him in public.
人前で彼を冷やかすなんて君は意地悪だ。
He exposed himself to the ridicule of his classmates.
彼は級友の嘲笑を浴びた。
It is not good to ridicule him in public.
公衆の面前で彼を嘲笑するのはよくない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”). The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus. The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.