| 单词 | scapegoat |
| 释义 | scapegoat n. & v. --n 1. a person bearing the blame for the sins, shortcomings, etc. of others, esp. as an expedient. 2. Bibl. a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16). --vtr. make a scapegoat of. Derivatives scapegoater n. Etymology: scape (archaic, = escape) + GOAT, = the goat that escapes |
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