scapegoat
替罪羊
definition
verb
The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election.
make a scapegoat of.
noun
Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
translation of 'scapegoat'
noun
替罪羊,
替身,
替死鬼
example
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they 'scapegoat' the unborn children of non-national parents.
When people face a crisis, they often revert to an unfortunate human tendency: to protect their own while finding a 'scapegoat' to blame the problem on.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to 'scapegoat' others for Government failures?
The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty 'scapegoat' through collective violence.
The obvious thing to do would be to find a 'scapegoat' , so they blame it on the bugs.
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular 'scapegoat' for its emergence.
Teenagers have always been an easy 'scapegoat' to blame for wider problems, but ultimately the majority of these young people grow up into well rounded adults.
For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to 'scapegoat' one person or another.
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
The point of this letter is not to 'scapegoat' doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
Instead of admitting our own mistakes in not providing the taxes to maintain and improve health care, we want a 'scapegoat' to take the blame away from ourselves.
When there is a problem, there always is a 'scapegoat' to blame.
We are the smallest company involved in the whole set-up and we feel they are looking for a 'scapegoat' - they have made some mistakes.
And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting 'scapegoated' , and I absolutely stand by that.
They might be poor - and society tends to use the poor as 'scapegoats' for the wrong doings of the big hands - but not all bad.
She is currently suspended from duty but she believes she has been unfairly 'scapegoated' and is taking a High Court case to be re-instated.
Labor and Liberal politicians both gain, along with capitalism's ruling class, when workers blame 'scapegoats' for a life of insecurity and want, rather than the government or system.
I think there's been a great deal of ignorance and a lot of 'scapegoating' and a lot of fear about the existence of same-sex, loving relationships.
But rather than seeing what it is we don't like, as the result of our culture and collective stupidity that gave the automobile so much power, we blame our problems on 'scapegoats' .
In any event, preparing for the worst hardly belongs in the same category as social 'scapegoating' or rushing ill-considered bills into law.
What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing 'scapegoats' and hypothetical enemies.
Young Irish people are being 'scapegoated' as binge drinkers and should not be blamed for the national increase in alcohol consumption, the president of the National Youth Council said yesterday.
Davis appears to have paid the price for his conspiratorial reputation and has been 'scapegoated' for the party's failure to make any political headway.
Jesus never 'scapegoated' people who had less power than the majority and never endorsed the human tendency to draw distinctions between in and out groups.
One thing many Americans don't know, for example, is that German Americans were 'scapegoated' during World War I, and were the victims of beatings, house burnings and other forms of violence.
The Republicans 'scapegoated' gays to win the election.
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