whipping boy

英 [ˈwɪpɪŋ bɔɪ]

美 [ˈwɪpɪŋ bɔɪ]

n.  代人受过者; 替罪羊; 出气筒

牛津词典

noun

• 代人受过者；替罪羊；出气筒
  a person who is often blamed or punished for things other people have done

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 替人受过者;替罪羊
  If someone or something is awhipping boyfor a particular situation, they get all the blame for it.
  1. He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.
     他成了现成的替罪羊，为旧政权的失败担受罪名。

英英释义

noun

• someone who is punished for the errors of others
  Synonym:scapegoat

双语例句

• He is just a whipping boy in this accident.
  在这次事故中他只是替罪羊。
• We are very much a whipping boy in the academic community.
  我们实在是学术圈里的替罪羊！
• With the arrest and questioning of its former chairman and finance director last month, it has become the national whipping boy.
  随着该行前董事长和财务总监上月被捕，并接受审讯，该行已成为整个国家的替罪羊。
• Henderson again offered plenty of ammunition for those fans looking for a new whipping boy.
  亨德森又一次给那些喜欢挑刺的球迷们提供了了口诛笔伐的理由。
• We are not here to interfere, nor are we here to be anyone's whipping boy.
  我们来这儿不是为了干涉别人，但也不是来受训挨骂的。
• The central bank has long been a whipping boy for anti-government conservatives, who dislike its power and perceived opacity.
  长期以来，美联储一直是反政府保守派人士的出气筒，这些人不喜欢美联储的权力和他们眼中的不透明。
• 2: Tom says his mother uses him as the whipping boy at home. She's an alcoholic and whenever his dad gets mad at her for getting drunk, she turns all her anger at him onto her son.
  Tom说：他母亲把他当成家里的受气包，母亲酗酒，每当父亲为母亲喝醉酒发火的时候，母亲就迁怒于儿子。
• Quantitative easing is the whipping boy, but it is not clear how much it is to blame for the reallocation of savings, he said.
  量化宽松是替罪羊，但储蓄的重新配置在多大程度上应归咎于量化宽松，目前尚不得而知。
• 1: He claims he was the whipping boy in the air base scandal.
  这个空军上尉声称自己在空军基地丑闻中只是个替罪羊，那可能真是这样。
• He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.
  他成了现成的替罪羊，为旧政权的失败担受罪名。