音标：英 /ˈskeɪpgəʊt/，美 /ˈskeɪpgoʊt/
意思：名词，指“代人受过的人；替罪羊”，即因他人过错或失败而被归咎责任的无辜者；也可用作动词，表示“使成为替罪羊” 。
用法：
作为名词时，常用搭配包括“be made a scapegoat”（成为替罪羊）、“use/take sb as a scapegoat”（把某人当替罪羊）等。
作为动词时，常见结构为“scapegoat sb for sth”（因某事将某人当作替罪羊）。
短语搭配：
be a scapegoat：背黑锅；替人受罪
become a scapegoat：成为替罪羊
look for a scapegoat：寻找替罪羊
scapegoat society：替罪羊社会（指倾向于归咎个体而非系统问题的社会现象）
例句：
她觉得本是老板无能，但自己却成了替罪羊。
She felt she had been made a scapegoat for her boss's incompetence.
他声称自己成了行政管理失败的替罪羊。
He claimed he had been a scapegoat for the administration's failures.
项目告吹后，负责人急于找一只替罪羊。
After the project aborted, the people in charge are looking for a scapegoat.
他们想让我入伙，出了乱子好让我替他们垫背。
They asked me to join the party so that I'll be their scapegoat when trouble comes.
少数民族常被当作就业机会不足的替罪羊。
Ethnic minorities are continually scapegoated for the lack of jobs.
她会抢你的功劳，却让你为她的失败背锅。
She will take credit for your successes and scapegoat you for her failures.
保守派将众多当代问题归咎于60年代，视其为替罪羊。
For conservatives, the 1960s have become a scapegoat to blame many contemporary problems upon.
别难为他，他不过是政治斗争的替罪羊。
Don't be so hard on him; he is just a political scapegoat.
他被当成德国空军所有败绩的替罪羊。
He had been made the scapegoat for all the failures of the Luftwaffe.
我不是你的替罪羊，别想让我承担你的错误。
I'm not your scapegoat. Don't try to make me take the blame for your mistakes.
从职场冲突到历史事件，“scapegoat”始终反映着人