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

• Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience.
  鼓励人们勇于承担责任不是让人们充当替罪羊，而是对人的良知的呼唤。
• 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。
• 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。
• Consequently, the idea of a central bank "plot" packs an increasingly powerful emotional appeal, and voters are hungry for explanations and scapegoats.
  因此，这种央行“阴谋”说获得了越来越强大的情感吸引力，选民急切需要解释和替罪羊。
• 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。
• These scapegoats were usually chosen from the children of the nobility and educated along with the prince, living in the same quarters and playing together in their spare time.
  这些替罪羊通常都是从贵族家庭的子女中挑选出来的，他们和王子一起接受教育，居住在一起，闲暇时候也一起玩耍。
• 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。
• 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？
• When, as now, they are in trouble they look for scapegoats Brussels is one of them.
  而像现在这样，当他们陷入困境时，他们会寻找替罪羊布鲁塞尔就是其中之一。