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

• European history is littered with the corpses of scapegoats.
  欧洲的历史到处是替罪羊的尸首。
• 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。
• The party began searching for scapegoats immediately after their election defeat.
  选举失败后这个党立刻开始寻找替罪羊。
• 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。
• Some of it is well deserved, but they are also easy scapegoats.
  其中一些批评是恰如其分的，但这些机构也容易成为替罪羊。
• 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。
• 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。
• They were made the scapegoats for the misfire of the program.
  他们成了那个计划失败的替罪羊。
• 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。
• Were the convicted and hanged Booth co-conspirators scapegoats for higher figures in a massive cover-up?
  被判处绞刑的布思阴谋犯罪人，是否是更高层人士们煞费苦心用来掩盖真相的替罪羊？