whipping boy

whipping boy

美 　英

• n.代人受过者；替罪羊；出气筒；(旧时)陪王子读书、代王子受罚的少年
• 网络替罪羔羊；代罪羔羊；意思是替罪羊或者受气包

词形变化

复数：whipping boys  

英汉双解

英汉解释

na.	1. 【史】(陪公子读书,代受鞭责的)受鞭伴读;代罪羔羊

英英解释

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。”

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

纽约时报报道：氢氟碳化物，虽然曾经被大多数科学家认为对人体健康的作用和糖一样但如今却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.

但伦敦时装周似乎更容易受人诟病，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 .

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。

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

这件事真的是冤。在这次事故中他只是替罪羊。我知道事故的全过程。可我不敢说啊。

He is just a whipping boy in this accident.

他正是那个便打的孩子在这个事故中。

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

然而，北美自由贸易协定并没有成为两党合作的范例，反倒成为反对全球化的替罪羊。

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。

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

德国已经不再是欧洲效仿的榜样，而是欧洲问题的代罪羔羊。

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 .

身为《秋季野生观察》主持人的派克汉姆表示，大熊猫是我经常用来说事的替罪羊。

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

沃尔玛作为全球最大的私营业主，因其在医疗、性别和劳工方面的政策，一时成了千夫所指的对象。

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

在17世纪的英国，教育未来的国王时出现了一个有趣的问题。

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

他们被每个人都要骂一遍，但是等着瞧吧。

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

在中国，这位精力充沛的法国领袖则有一个不同的身份：他是北京最喜欢的国际出气筒。

this whipping boy done wrong.

这个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，华尔街的亲近者，另一方面，华尔街的替罪羊。

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

相应地，这些富豪们也有义务不时在国有电视媒体上充当政府的替罪羊。

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

但我们需要一个替罪羊，而经济学家们一直，种，被鞭打男孩，