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。
替罪羊;代人受过者
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替罪羊;代人受过者
Someone punished for the errors of others.
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。
替他人受罚者;替罪羊
Someone punished for the errors of others.
The manager made his young assistant the whipping boy for the team's failure.
经理把年轻的助理当成了团队失败的替罪羊。
Whenever the project went wrong, she became the whipping boy for the whole department.
每当项目出错,她就成了整个部门的替罪羊。
In the old company, the newest worker was usually the whipping boy and took the blame for every mistake.
在那家老公司,最新来的员工通常就是替罪羊,每个错误都要承担责任。
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。
“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。
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。
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。
Not this
He is whipping boy for his team's failures.
Use this
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"。
Not this
The manager whipping boyed the intern for the mistake.
Use this
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。
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