scapegoats

英 [ˈskeɪpɡəʊts]

美 [ˈskeɪpɡoʊts]

n.  替罪羊; 代人受过者
v.  使…成为替罪羊
scapegoat的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 替罪羊;代人受过者
  If you say that someone is made ascapegoat forsomething bad that has happened, you mean that people blame them and may punish them for it although it may not be their fault.
  1. I don't deserve to be made the scapegoat for a couple of bad results.
     我不应该为一些不好的结果顶罪。
• VERB 使代人受过;把…当替罪羊
  Toscapegoatsomeone means to blame them publicly for something bad that has happened, even though it was not their fault.
  1. Ethnic minorities are continually scapegoated for the lack of jobs.
     工作机会少常常会怪到少数民族头上。

双语例句

• Under the current dictator's father, Kim Jong Il, senior officials were killed or ousted as scapegoats for policy failure.
  金正恩的父亲金正日（KimJongIl）当权时，每当政策失败，总会有高级官员因此背黑锅，被杀或罢免。
• As economic conditions worsen, so this tendency to look for foreign scapegoats will intensify.
  随着经济形势恶化，这种寻找外国替罪羊的倾向将会有所抬头。
• You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.
  如果你选择拿邮局或电话局这样的替罪羊开涮，那你就不会得罪任何人。
• Foreign competitors, Wall Street fat cats and big government are the preferred scapegoats, never mind that technology plays a larger role in stoking worker insecurities.
  他们更喜欢用外国竞争者、华尔街肥猫和大政府做替罪羊，而丝毫不在意科技在造成工人失去保障中扮演了更重要的角色。
• Only some of the guards and a minor hotel employee, chosen as scapegoats, were imprisoned.
  只有一些保镖和那个旅馆的小职员当了替罪羊，被关进了监狱。
• I suppose everyone facing hard times wants scapegoats for their present difficulties.
  在我看来，每个面临困境的人都希望为他们眼前的困难寻找替罪羊。
• Stuck for answers, politicians have been looking for scapegoats.
  胶着于找出解决方案，政治家正在寻找替罪羊。
• Mr Brooks was equally forceful, decrying the case against his wife as a witch hunt, while claiming they were being made scapegoats for the scandal.
  查理布鲁克斯的语气同样激昂，谴责针对他妻子的案子是一场政治迫害，同时声称他们正被当作这起丑闻的替罪羊。
• The system encourages politicians to seek scapegoats, Mr Ding wrote, and those who do it are either stupid or weak.
  他写道，这样的政治系统鼓励政客寻找替罪羊，这么做的政客要不愚蠢，要不软弱。
• But several former executives were charged with crimes, and some of them have protested that the internal probe served to make them scapegoats while protecting the companies and current executives.
  但其一些前主管人员受到了犯罪指控，他们中的一些人抗议称内部调查在保护公司和现任主管人员的时候将他们当成了替罪羊。