scapegoats
n. 代人受过的人,替罪羊( scapegoat的名词复数 )
v. 使成为替罪羊( scapegoat的第三人称单数 )
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.
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。
To scapegoat someone means to blame them publicly for something bad that has happened, even though it was not their fault.
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。
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.
A protracted malaise will spawn an angry search for scapegoats.
这种不满情绪会不断扩大去寻找替罪羊.
Martin Fridson, a credit analyst , argues that the agencies are often used as scapegoats.
信用评估人马丁? 弗里德森 (MartinFridson)认为评级机构经常被当作替罪羊.
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.
When , as now, they 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.