whipping boy
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈwɪp.ɪŋ ˌbɔɪ]
- 美式音标 [ˈwɪp.ɪŋ ˌbɔɪ]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- 代罪羔羊，代人受罪者
英汉例句
- It is the same with rating agencies, the whipping boys of the crisis.
同样，还有评估机构，这些本次危机的替罪羊。 - Time, too, is the essential ingredient in reforming the capital markets,especially the conduct of the rating agencies, the whipping boys of the crisisright now (see article).
在重整资本市场，特别是联邦证券评级机构的调控和危机的替罪羊的诸多因素中，时机也是非常重要的因素。 - Peter Crouch, Emile Heskey, to take two favourite whipping boys, are more talented than they’re given credit for and certainly far from the stereotypical big lumbering centre forwards of old.
克劳奇，赫斯基，拿这两个被敲打最多的小伙子来说，他们的天赋远远高过得到的认可，他们肯定远远不是那种又大又笨的老式高中锋。 - Hence, we will see this week the Democratic leadership pushing for legislation to punish "speculators" who are their latest whipping boys for the current crisis.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Energy freedom - Although civilian contractors like Haliburton have become favorite whipping boys for anti-war critics, their personnel are also putting their lives on the line to help the people of Iraq turn things around.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chinook down - In order to create the funds necessary for student loan forgiveness, 54% of respondents said the government should erase subsidies to oil and gas companies, the cliche whipping boys of students everywhere.
FORBES: Dude, Where's My Student Loan Bailout?
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- whipping g boy 代人受罪者;陪王子读书
- A Whipping Boy 替罪羊
- The Whipping Boy 王子替罪羊;挨鞭童;王子的替罪羊
- This whipping boy done wrong 这个替罪羊做错了事情
- The boy deserves whipping 这男孩该挨鞭子了
短语
英英字典
- someone or something that is blamed or punished for problems that are caused by someone or something else
- If someone or something is a whipping boy for a particular situation, they get all the blame for it.