scapegoat

noun

1. 替罪羊；代人受过者
   a person who is blamed for sth bad that sb else has done or for some failure
   1. 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。

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。

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. 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。
3. They ask me to join the party so that I'll be their scapegoat when trouble comes.
   他们想叫我入伙，出了乱子，好让我替他们垫背。
4. She was made the scapegoat, but it was the others who started the fire.
   是别人放的火，让她背了黑锅。
5. Do not allow poor project performance to be a scapegoat in an organization that is not defining value properly.
   不要让不好的项目执行成为没有适当地定义价值的替罪羊。
6. Governance can become a scapegoat for any ill in SOA.
   治理可能成为SOA中任何错误的替罪羊。
7. But the fact is that every country in crisis needs a scapegoat.
   但现实就是这样，每个处在危机中的国家都需要找到替罪羊。
8. She's always the scapegoat when anything goes wrong.
   出错时她总要代人受过。
9. Yet this President Bush is not a good scapegoat.
   但这位布什总统却并非一只顺从的替罪羊。
10. B: Definitely not. He is just the scapegoat.
    当然不是，他只是个替罪羊而已。
11. The easy scapegoat is Mr Bush himself.
    温驯的替罪羊正是布什先生本人。
12. But they'll make up a scapegoat, send him to detention, and make us all believe it.
    但是他们会找个替罪羊，抓起来，让大家都信就是了。
13. You can't step on others, can only do others scapegoat.
    你不能踩着别人肩膀，就只能做他人垫背。
14. This means to be the scapegoat, to be blamed for something that someone else did.
    被告成为别人的替罪羊。它的意思是替罪羊，也就是替人受过。
15. Their defence lawyers may claim they are being made scapegoat for a whole era of corporate greed.
    他们的辩护律师可能会说，他们成为整个贪婪的时代的替罪羔羊。
16. No doubt Mr Mubarak believed that making a scapegoat of the government would buy him time.
    毫无疑问，穆巴拉克相信，让现政府成为替罪羊将为他赢得时间。
17. Jesus became the scapegoat for our sins, and he was punished for our sins.
    耶稣为了我们的罪作了替罪羊他又为了我们的罪而受惩罚。
18. He was made a scapegoat of the ruling circles and compelled to resign.
    他成了统治集团的替罪羊，被迫辞职。
19. The accused was used as a scapegoat.
    被告成为别人的替罪羊。
20. The sheriff is using me as a scapegoat.
    治安官拿我做替罪羊。
21. 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。
22. The easiest and safest scapegoat is the one with the highest salaries and profits.
    最容易也最安全的替罪羊，就是薪资和利润都最高的银行。
23. He was not going to be made a scapegoat.
    他不打算成为替罪羊。
24. In the case of a serious problem, a good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution.
    在严重问题之前，一个好的替罪羊几乎与一个解决方案一样受欢迎。
25. The boss wants to make Bob our scapegoat.
    老板想让鲍伯成为代罪羔羊。
26. He is nearly a scapegoat.
    他几乎是个替罪羔羊。
27. People use my name a lot, he says. I'm a kind of scapegoat.
    人们常常使用我的名字，他表示，我有点像是替罪羊。
28. Why pick you as a scapegoat?
    他们为什么选你当替罪羊？
29. But I suspect that the nuclear weapon is only the scapegoat for our fears.
    但我怀疑，核武器不过是我们害怕的替罪羊。
30. FIND A SCAPEGOAT You have two options – blame and fire or cards on the table.
    找一只替罪羊你有两种选择责备并解雇某人或者摊牌。

noun

1. someone who is punished for the errors of others

   Synonym:    whipping boy