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To lampoon someone or something is to attack them in a funny, public way that makes them look stupid — in a cartoon, a sketch, a song, or a magazine piece. It is not a private joke between friends; it is mockery with an audience, often aimed at famous people or at . The word feels a bit literary and sharp; in everyday talk students more often hear “make fun of.” It also works as a noun: a lampoon is the piece of writing or the show that does this. Though actually, it has nothing to do with a lamp, even though the first letters match.
諷刺；嘲諷（公開、幽默地讓對方顯得可笑）
組成From French lampon (satire, mockery), built on lampons — “let us drink,” a shout that used to come back again and again in rude drinking songs — from lamper, “to drink down, to swig.”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lampoonnoun/læmˈpuːn/
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A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.
- To say truth, Ma'am, 'tis very vulgar to Print and as my little Productions are mostly Satires and Lampoons I find they circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the Friends of the Parties—
- "Dangerous things, sir—dangerous things!" exclaimed Mr. Lintot, drawing a deep breath of air from the open window: "do you know, sir, Curl published a lampoon on Lord Hervey the other day, who said that he would have horsewhipped him if he could have found his way into the city...
lampoonverb/læmˈpuːn/
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To satirize or poke fun at.
- The original phrase was frequently lampooned in subsequent years, becoming strong enough in popular culture that the variations in place of ‘drugs’ probably didn’t take long to appear at all.
- Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule. Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences … of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。