(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16) (《圣经》)替罪羊 ■a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency 代人受过者
verb
[with obj.]make a scapegoat of 使成为…的替罪羊
派生 scapegoater noun 语源
mid 16th cent.: from archaic scape 'escape' + goat