| 单词 | scapegoat |
| 释义 | scapegoat /skayp"goht'/, n. 1. a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place. 2. Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Lev. 16:8,10,26. v.t. 3. to make a scapegoat of: Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors. [1520-30; SCAPE2 + GOAT] |
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