时间:2019-01-21 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 Scapegoat 1: 替罪羊


一次翻看国家公务员试题的时候竟然无意中瞄到这么一道:scapegoat(替罪羊)源于何处?呵!看来,我们的Word Story(词语故事)栏目意义非同寻常哦!若您经常浏览这里,想必这道试题的分数拿定了! “替罪羊”源于《圣经》的《旧约》,有一个非常有趣的小典故。在摩西时代,依据法规,犹太人在新年过后的第10天,还有一个非常重要的节日Atonement/Yom Kippur(赎罪日)。在这一天,犹太人彻底斋戒,并在圣殿举行祭祀仪式,以此祈求上帝赦免他们在过去一年中所犯的罪过。祭祀时,教徒们拿来两头山羊,一头为the Lord's goat(“献给上帝的羊”,不言而喻,小命肯定不保);而另一头则要被放逐旷野,这就是所谓的“escape goat”或“scapegoat”(替罪羊),即一头“带走了犹太人一切罪孽的羊”。 具有讽刺意义的是:与祭祀上帝的那只“the Lord's goat”相比,《旧约》中的“替罪羊”实质上幸运多了,它不但免遭屠刀之灾,还可不受任何惩罚逍遥于山林。不过,现代的“替罪羊”日子可不好过,明明自己一身清白,还要替人“背黑锅”,实在冤得慌。举个例子: I was made the scapegoat, but it was the others who started the fire.(别人放的火,却让我背了黑锅。)

n.替罪的羔羊,替人顶罪者;v.使…成为替罪羊
  • He has been made a scapegoat for the company's failures.他成了公司倒闭的替罪羊。
  • They ask me to join the party so that I'll be their scapegoat when trouble comes.他们想叫我入伙,出了乱子,好让我替他们垫背。
标签: 口语
学英语单词
acierated
aligning torque stiffness coefficient
any old how
Armorican orogeny
astrochronological
aurantium amarum cortex
bell-lyra
Bergen,Edgar
bill of lading for combined transport
bodes
britty
buffering
burn you
chaetoxorista eutachinoides
chimneypiece
chlamydomonass
Christensen Glacier
chrome plated PVC flexible hose
chrysostictus
cnidaria
come to an untimely end
condiment vegetables
connectionally
control of guns of ammunitions
control telephone repeater station
cosmopilization
cultural geography
Daktar
dangerous illness
Dhruva
downtime
drug-runner
ectopic implantation
Eisenenstatit
electrode efficiency
exact vengeance from sb for sth
excess-of-loss reinsurance treaty
fair-lending
family Nyssaceae
floating rate of pellet feed
fore-pump
fried squid
gaoling
glass package
glasswalled
gullikson
heat transfer engineering
human-service
impossibilities
induced flow
infirmary
inlet air throttle
irregularly distributed load
kick the shit out of someone
likening to
majali
marmarized
multistep
neostriata
non sui juris
nonbiomass
Oakland City
operacion
oxyglottis
PC-DOS
penone
planning factor
play-box
presift
primary clearance
purificant
raised flooring
rbg
resin casting installation
reverse avalanche energy
saor
sasapyrin
scandium boride
signal enhancement shallowlayer seismograph
sine-cosine function error
solar thermal systems
sponsored
staphisacre
steam-distribution plate
stereotype reaction
sun-up
tendinous sheath of flexor carpi radialis
There's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
topsy turviness
Torre Annunziata
translation of jump function
trichothallic
tunning
twisting double hook
UVSMP
volumic
vomating
wastewater condition
watchfully
wave forming resistance
wearifully
young age