whipping boy

whipping boy

美 　英

• n.代人受過者；替罪羊；出氣筒；(舊時)陪王子讀書、代王子受罰的少年
• 網絡替罪羔羊；代罪羔羊；意思是替罪羊或者受氣包

詞形變化

復數：whipping boys  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

na.	1. 【史】(陪公子讀書,代受鞭責的)受鞭伴讀;代罪羔羊

英英解釋

n.	1. someone who is punished for someone else’s mistake or crime, usually because they have less power than that person

例句

"Quantitative easing is the whipping boy, but it is not clear how much it is to blame for the reallocation of savings, " he said.

“量化寬松是替罪羊，但儲蓄的重新配置在多大程度上應歸咎于量化寬松，目前尚不得而知。”

HFCS, though believed by most scientists to be the same as sugar for your health, has become a whipping boy these days.

紐約時報報道：氫氟碳化物，雖然曾經被大多數科學家認為對人體健康的作用和糖一樣但如今卻使小孩成了代罪羔羊。

And yet, fashion week often seems more like a local whipping boy than a jewel in our crown.

但倫敦時裝周似乎更容易受人詬病，而不像皇冠上的明珠。

With the arrest and questioning of its former chairman and finance director last month , it has become the national whipping boy .

隨著該行前董事長和財務總監上月被捕，并接受審訊，該行已成為整個國家的替罪羊。

This really is wrong. He is just a whipping boy in this accident. I know A to Z.

這件事真的是冤。在這次事故中他只是替罪羊。我知道事故的全過程。可我不敢說啊。

He is just a whipping boy in this accident.

他正是那個便打的孩子在這個事故中。

Instead of becoming a beacon of bipartisanship, however, Nafta is the latest whipping boy for the anti-globalization crowd.

然而，北美自由貿易協定并沒有成為兩黨合作的范例，反倒成為反對全球化的替罪羊。

1: He claims he was the whipping boy in the air base scandal.

這個空軍上尉聲稱自己在空軍基地丑聞中只是個替罪羊，那可能真是這樣。

Germany is becoming no longer Europe's model but rather its whipping boy .

德國已經不再是歐洲效仿的榜樣，而是歐洲問題的代罪羔羊。

He does not want to be a whipping boy any more.

他不要再做替罪羔羊。

"Pandas are my frequent whipping boy, " said Mr Packham, a host of Autumnwatch .

身為《秋季野生觀察》主持人的派克漢姆表示，大熊貓是我經常用來說事的替罪羊。

Wal-Mart, the biggest private employer, became a favourite public whipping boy because of its health-care, gender and labour policies.

沃爾瑪作為全球最大的私營業主，因其在醫療、性別和勞工方面的政策，一時成了千夫所指的對象。

Whipping Boy During the 1600's in England, educating the future king created an interesting problem.

在17世紀的英國，教育未來的國王時出現了一個有趣的問題。

They are everybody's whipping boy right now, but just wait.

他們被每個人都要罵一遍，但是等著瞧吧。

In China, the energetic French leader has a strikingly different standing: he is Beijing's favorite international whipping boy.

在中國，這位精力充沛的法國領袖則有一個不同的身份：他是北京最喜歡的國際出氣筒。

this whipping boy done wrong.

這個替罪羔羊做了件蠢事。

At one point, Wall Street's darling, another point, Wall Street's whipping boy.

一方面，華爾街的親近者，另一方面，華爾街的替罪羊。

The tycoons, in turn, have obliged by sometimes playing the role of whipping boy on state television.

相應地，這些富豪們也有義務不時在國有電視媒體上充當政府的替罪羊。

but we need a whipping boy, and economists have always, kind of, been whipping boys,

但我們需要一個替罪羊，而經濟學家們一直，種，被鞭打男孩，