Tom says his mother USES him as the whipping boy at home. She's an alcoholic and whenever his dad gets mad at her for getting drunk, she turns all her anger at him onto her son.

汤姆说他母亲把他当成家里的受气包，她母亲是个酒鬼，每次他父亲为他母亲喝醉酒发火的时候，他母亲就迁怒于他。

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He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.

他成了承担旧政权失败的现成的替罪羊。

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He worked the whipping-boy mine to ever-increasing profit.

他把那代鞭的男孩当做一个矿山开采，得到的好处越来越大了。

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The company has been the whipping boy of pundits, politicians, and professional whiners for three years.

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The atmosphere in Congress was tense before Thanksgiving, he said, adding that he feels "automakers have become the whipping boy" for the industry bailout.

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He clearly cares deeply about the title character (Vincent Gallo), a writer living in Buenos Aires, who had been the darling, and is now the whipping boy, of a dominant local critic.

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