scapegoat是什么意思

双语用例

• In both cases, certain victims, heroes, enemies and scapegoats were at the heart of the interpretation.

• No matter how perceptions of the environment are parsed, scapegoat theory receives precious little support from these data.

• We must acknowledge at the outset that our test of scapegoat theory is incomplete.

• One implication of this sort of 'diversion' is that potential scapegoats might employ strategic behaviour to avoid becoming a diversionary target.

• To make sense of the crisis, the authorities looked for scapegoats.

• It is at this point that anxious and threatened citizens often identify a scapegoat for societal problems.

• Because monsters are always the constitutive outside of normativity, the scapegoats constructed of society's devouring anxieties, they can never safely be tucked away.

• Political entrepreneurs seek political capital by mobilizing support for repressive and punitive actions against scapegoats.