以前有人笑話我們。

People used to laugh at us.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 以前 yǐqián
  1. before
  2. formerly
  3. previous
  4. ago
2 有人 yǒurén
  1. someone
  2. people
  3. anyone
  4. there is someone there
  5. occupied (as in restroom)
=3 笑話 xiàohua
  1. to laugh at; to mock
  2. ridiculous; absurd

classifier: 個
=3 笑話 xiàohuà
  1. (figuratively) joke; sham
  2. joke (in spoken form) (Classifier: 句 m; 個／个 c)
  3. joke; sham
  4. to mock; to ridicule; to laugh at
4 我們 wǒmen we; us; ourselves; our