whipping boy

常见例句

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.
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