N-COUNT If someone or something is a whipping boy for a particular situation, they get all the blame for it. 替人受过者
He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.
他成了承担旧政权失败的现成的替罪羊。
Armenia away from home, I thought that they were whipping boys on their travels.
亚美尼亚远离家乡,我还以为他们是在他们的旅行鞭打男孩。
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。
While there is no record attesting5 how well this worked in practice, we do know that some Kings later rewarded their whipping boys with land and nobility roles.
尽管没有记录证实这一做法的实际效果如何,我们确知的一点是,有些国王后来会赐给他们的替罪羊土地和爵位。
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