scapegoats

英 [ˈskeɪpɡəʊts] 美 [ˈskeɪpɡoʊts]

n.  替罪羊; 代人受过者
v.  使…成为替罪羊
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柯林斯词典

  1. 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.
    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。
  2. 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.
    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。
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双语例句

  1. Being able to use the leaders as scapegoats and to laugh at the leaders somehow makes people feel better about their situation.
    把引导人当成替罪羊来加以嘲讽，从某种水平上这会让人们对自己的处境认为好一点。
  2. The judge stands accused of ignoring the scientific truth that earthquakes cannot be predicted, and of seeking scapegoats to appease the embittered population.
    人们指责法官无视地震不可能被预测的科学事实、为安抚受灾居民而寻找替罪羊。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. But Mexicans also find scapegoats.
    但墨西哥人也找到了替罪羊推卸责任。
  7. 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。
  8. But in its desperate search for scapegoats, the West skirts the key question: What would happen if our quest for never-ending economic growth has become a mirage?
    在疯狂寻找替罪羊的过程中，西方却回避了最关键的问题：假如我们对永无止境的经济增长的追求已成为夸父逐日之举，又该怎么办？
  9. 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。
  10. 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。
  11. 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。
  12. In some respects, of course, this is nothing new: the agencies often become scapegoats in a crisis.
    当然，从某些方面来说，这并不新鲜：评级机构往往会成为一场危机中的替罪羊。
  13. 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。
  14. Won't have family property between brothers to scramble for the bickering, and scapegoats.
    不会有家庭亲兄弟之间为争夺家产的口角、反目为仇；
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. European history is littered with the corpses of scapegoats.
    欧洲的历史到处是替罪羊的尸首。
  18. 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。
  19. 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。
  20. 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。
  21. 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？
  22. 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。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. For the other thing, Morrison metaphorically rewrites these scapegoats to parody the dissident-persecution tradition of Christian culture of the whites, thereby lashing out against the racial persecution of the whites over the blacks.
    另一方面，莫里森对这些替罪羊的赎罪作用进行隐喻性改写，用以戏仿白人基督教文化的不容异己性，进一步揭露了种族迫害之罪。
  27. In addition, through analyzing the social, political and economic background of the United States in the late 20th century, the present writer also comes to the conclusion that the change of language policy is to find scapegoats for the ills of society.
    此外，通过对二十世纪晚期美国社会、政治、经济背景的分析，本文作者还认为语言政策之转变是为当时美国社会问题寻找替罪羊。
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