scapegoat
scapegoat 英 [ˈskeɪpgəʊt] 美 [ˈskeɪpgoʊt]
n. 替罪羊
名词复数:scapegoats
- The Bible depicts a ritual in which a goat is sent out into the desert bearing the faults of the people of Israel. The word scapegoat first occurred in the earliest English translation of the Bible, and it has come to mean any individual punished for the misdeeds of others.
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- n. 替罪羊
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1. He has been made a scapegoat for the company’s failures.
他成了公司倒闭的替罪羊。
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2. They were made the scapegoats for the misfire of the program.
他们成了那个计划失败的替罪羊。
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3. Why should Gimpy be the scapegoat?
为什么让金皮成为替罪羊呢？
- scapegoat (n.) 1530, "goat sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement, symbolic bearer of the sins of the people," coined by Tyndale from scape (n.1) + goat to translate Latin caper emissarius, itself a translation in Vulgate of Hebrew 'azazel (Leviticus xvi.8, 10, 26), which was read as 'ez ozel "goat that departs," but which others hold to be the proper name of a devil or demon in Jewish mythology (sometimes identified with Canaanite deity Aziz).
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