scapegoats
n. 代人受過的人,替罪羊( scapegoat的名詞複數 )
v. 使成為替罪羊( scapegoat的第三人稱單數 )
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.
我不應該為一些不好的結果頂罪。
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.
工作機會少常常會怪到少數民族頭上。
Only some of the guards and a minor hotel employee, chosen as scapegoats, were imprisoned.
只有一些保鏢和那個旅館的小職員當了替罪羊, 被關進了監獄.
A protracted malaise will spawn an angry search for scapegoats.
這種不滿情緒會不斷擴大去尋找替罪羊.
Martin Fridson, a credit analyst , argues that the agencies are often used as scapegoats.
信用評估人馬丁? 弗裡德森 (MartinFridson)認為評級機構經常被當作替罪羊.
As economic conditions worsen, so this tendency to look for foreign scapegoats will intensify.
隨著經濟形勢惡化, 這種尋找外國替罪羊的傾向將會有所抬頭.
When , as now, they in trouble they look for scapegoats – Brussels is one of them.
而像現在這樣, 當他們陷入困境時,他們會尋找替罪羊——布魯塞爾就是其中之一.