scapegoat的意思|scapegoat的解释-里氏词典

scapegoat ['skeipgәut]

n. 替罪羔羊, 替人顶罪者, 替身

[法] 替罪羊, 代人受过者

scapegoat

[ noun ]
someone who is punished for the errors of others
<noun.person>

Scapegoat \Scape"goat`\, n. [Scape (for escape) + goat.]
1. (Jewish Antiq.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically
placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered
to escape into the wilderness. --Lev. xvi. 10.

2. Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for
others. --Tennyson.

In Cleveland, the family of Hartwig has criticized the Navy's report and characterized Hartwig as a convenient scapegoat being used to deflect attention from what they consider the Navy's negligence.
Walsh said a prison term is necessary to reduce North's political following that was cultivated on the lecture circuit and "reinforces his lack of remorse." Walsh rejected North's contention that he is a scapegoat.
Packer emerged victorious _ and Bell became a perfect scapegoat for all the other deaths." Many of the 219 permanent residents of Lake City hope the dig will raise the town's profile as a vacation spot.
Hence Mr Bush's decision to take 21 professional scapegoat hunters with him.
Food advertising is not about diet but about individual brands, says the association: 'Brand adverts are not tools of social engineering, even if the NFA would like them to be.' The AA sees advertising as once again being made the scapegoat.
Defense attorney Salvatore Marinello said Golub was a scapegoat for police desperate to make an arrest.
Kurzman said Navy officials, desperate for a scapegoat, quickly fixed blame on McVay, son of former U.S. Asiatic Fleet commander Adm.
But while some relatives of the victims were pleased, others thought authorities might be just finding a scapegoat.
Referring to that testimony, Summers' lawyer, Eugene Tinari, said afterward his client has been made a "scapegoat" in the city's war on drugs.
His attorneys argued that he was a scapegoat.
Even the corporate elite are scapegoat hunting.
Because he may have to turn to the military in a future crisis, letting a general be made the scapegoat for the Georgian massacre is risky for Mr. Gorbachev.
When the whole story was revealed, the shares tumbled 13 per cent. It is hard not to feel some sympathy for Mr Lewis, scapegoat for a series of ill-fated adventures in which others played an equally central part.
"Either I would be the scapegoat because I was taking on the president, or I would be the chairman of the Armed Services Committee covering up the alleged transgressions of the nominee," he said.
Cole responded angrily when Madson called Hazelwood a scapegoat.
A colleague says the man was a scapegoat in a cover-up of problems in Army aircraft safety.
He said Costa Rica was embarrassed by revelations in the Iran-Contra scandal that some Contra supplies went through Costa Rica and is prosecuting him as a scapegoat.
But many Hispanics, particularly those in the 200,000-strong Colombian community, say the officer was a scapegoat to racial politics.
His lawyers complained he was a "scapegoat" in a disaster with many culprits.
Keating, 66, contends he is being made a scapegoat, is broke and cannot defend himself against the host of lawsuits against him if he is locked up.
Churbanov's attorney, Andrei Makarov of Moscow, said in an interview published last week that his client is being made a scapegoat for the ills of the Brezhnev era.
He accuses them of making him a scapegoat to cover up their own bungling supervision of the thrift industry.
Mrs. Hamilton, in a telephone interview from her home in western Kitale town, said her husband is being used as a scapegoat in the dispute.
Trutt told Katz that she feels she is a scapegoat. "Here I am taking the brunt for it.
East Germany's Communist leaders have found a new scapegoat to explain away mounting protests for reform and the refugee exodus.
After months of defending Ryzhkov and claiming critics were making him a scapegoat, Gorbachev let Ryzhkov go subtly.
He contends he never broke any laws and that government officials are making him a scapegoat to conceal their own failure to prevent the S&L disaster.
Hartwig's family says the Navy is trying to make him the scapegoat for its own negligence.
"The networks need a scapegoat, and the peoplemeter has been blamed for just about everything in the last six months," said Betsy Frank, senior vice president at ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi DFS Compton.
A Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said whatever government is chosen is likely to be "rather temporary." Messner's team was ousted because "they needed a scapegoat" for the strikes and the poor economy, said the diplomat.

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