scapegoat英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.

— And Aarõ caſt lottes ouer the .ij. gootes: one lotte for the Lorde, ãd another for a ſcapegoote.
Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.

— He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions and the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!

动词 v.

To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of. intransitive,transitive

— People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.

词形变化

scapegoats plural scapegoats present,singular,third-person scapegoating participle,present scapegoated participle,past scapegoated past

词汇关系

近义词

sacrificial lamb escapegoat fall guy folk devil goat Joe Soap patsy scapegoat whipping boy

上位词

outcast

衍生词

scapegoatish

词源

词源 1

From scape + goat; coined by English biblical scholar and translator William Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew עֲזָאזֵל (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from עֵז (ez, “goat”) and אוזל (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530. Compare English scapegrace, scapegallows.

词源 2

From scape + goat; coined by English biblical scholar and translator William Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew עֲזָאזֵל (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from עֵז (ez, “goat”) and אוזל (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530. Compare English scapegrace, scapegallows.