"ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"
"a contribution so small as to be laughable"
"it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"
"a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"
"her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
derisory 片语
片语
mocking嘲笑;(模仿)嘲弄;不尊重;蔑视(mock 的现在分词)
jeering嘲笑的,奚落的
derisory 例句
英汉例句
when opponents criticise cubans’ derisory wages (averaging $20 per month), officials always point to the additional 「social wage」 of free housing, health, education, transport and food rations.
what matters for cuban livelihoods is access to hard currency, through remittances or a widespread informal economy, rather than derisory wages or the threadbare official ration system.
as credit markets all but closed, the cheap loans on which they relied dried up. companies started to change hands for prices that would have seemed derisory just months earlier.
heavy-foot made a derisory noise, proving that he didn't recognize irony when he heard it.
大脚发出了嘲弄的笑声,证明他根本不懂得反话。
「nicolas sarkozy does not intend to give up on it, whatever the derisory manoeuvres that only serve to harm creative diversity, 」 his office said in a statement.
sandbanks have appeared, navigation has slowed, fishermen complain of derisory catches, and the 60m people whose livelihoods directly or indirectly depend on the river are worried.