" Shove it, Jack, " I said. " Keep that guff for the juvenile bureau. It's a horse laugh even to them" .
“推它，杰克，” 我说。“为少年局保持那种胡言乱语。即使对他们来说也是马笑” 。
人性的优点
But when his older brothers and sisters found out that he had paid far more for his whistle than he should have paid, they gave him the horse laugh; and, as he said: " I cried with vexation" .
诉诸荒谬（appeal to ridicule）或诉诸嘲弄（appeal to mockery）是一种诉诸情感谬误，是表达对方的说法荒谬、可笑、愚蠢，而不提出任何论证的做为。
英语百科
Appeal to ridicule 诉诸荒谬
（重定向自Horse laugh）
Appeal to ridicule (also called appeal to mockery, ab absurdo, or the horse laugh), is an informal fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd, ridiculous, or in any way humorous, to the specific end of a foregone conclusion that the argument lacks any substance which would merit consideration.