Phrase
whipping boy
替罪羊；代人受过者
Someone punished for the errors of others.
- 1.
Someone punished for the errors of others.
替他人受罚者；替罪羊
替他人受罚者；替罪羊；代人受罪者；代罪羔羊
In use
The manager made his young assistant the whipping boy for the team's failure.
Whenever the project went wrong, she became the whipping boy for the whole department.
In the old company, the newest worker was usually the whipping boy and took the blame for every mistake.
be a whipping boy for sb/sth
The junior employee was the whipping boy for the team's failures.
这位初级员工成了团队失败的代罪羔羊。
act as a whipping boy
“背黑锅”是口语化表达，与“whipping boy”含义相近。
He often acted as a whipping boy for his boss's mistakes.
他经常为老板的错误背黑锅。
use sb as a whipping boy
The manager used the intern as a whipping boy for the project's problems.
经理把实习生当作项目问题的替罪羊。
become a whipping boy
The new CEO became a whipping boy for the company's declining profits.
新任CEO成了公司利润下滑的替罪羊。
Common mistakes
He is whipping boy for his team's failures.He is a whipping boy for his team's failures.
中文中缺乏冠词，学习者容易忽略不定冠词"a"。英语中需要冠词来修饰可数名词短语"whipping boy"。
The manager whipping boyed the intern for the mistake.The manager made the intern a whipping boy for the mistake.
学习者误将"whipping boy"用作动词，但它是名词短语。正确的表达是使用"make someone a whipping boy"结构。
Connections
Learner notes
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.