laugh off

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To respond to (a negative situation) lightheartedly, as though it were a joke. transitive
    — […] The landowner, Gennaro Matrone, had a hunch that these were the remains of Pliny the Elder (the Younger wrote of his uncle’s body lying as if asleep on the day after the eruption), but his theory was laughed off in the press.

词形变化

laughs off present,singular,third-person laughing off participle,present laughed off participle,past laughed off past
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