whipping boy
常见例句
- It is the same with rating agencies, the whipping boys of the crisis.
同樣,還有評估機搆,這些本次危機的替罪羊。 - 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).
在重整資本市場,特別是聯邦証券評級機搆的調控和危機的替罪羊的諸多因素中,時機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.
尅勞奇,赫斯基,拿這兩個被敲打最多的小夥子來說,他們的天賦遠遠高過得到的認可,他們肯定遠遠不是那種又大又笨的老式高中鋒。 - 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.
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