scapegoat是什么意思？

scapegoat

英[ˈskeɪpgəʊt] 美[ˈskeɪpgoʊt]

• n. 代人受过的人，替罪羊，替身；
• vt. 使…成为替罪羊；

复数：scapegoats;

第三人称单数：scapegoats;

过去式：scapegoated;

过去分词：scapegoated;

现在分词：scapegoating;

例句

• He has been made a scapegoat for the company’s failures. 他成了公司倒闭的替罪羊。
• The old curmudgeon found a new scapegoat and that let me out. 那个老守财奴找到一个新的替罪羊，这样我就脱身了。
• He has been made a scapegoat for the company's failures. 他成了公司倒闭的替罪羊.
• She felt she had been made a scapegoat for her boss's incompetence. 她觉得，本是老板无能，但她却成了替罪羊。
• He had been made the scapegoat for all the failures of the Luftwaffe. 他就是德国空军各次败绩的替罪羊.
• 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。
• ...a convenient scapegoat... 随手抓来的替罪羊

英语四级真题

Some are seeking scapegoats (替罪羊).
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  替罪羊;代人受过者
  If you say that someone is made a scapegoat for something bad that has happened, you mean that people blame them and may punish them for it although it may not be their fault.
  例句
  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
  To scapegoat someone means to blame them publicly for something bad that has happened, even though it was not their fault.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  代人受过的人;替罪羊
  He has been made a scapegoat for the company’s failures. 他成了公司倒闭的替罪羊。
• n.

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. someone punished for the errors of others