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。
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。
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。
I knew that if I didn't stand up to him, I would become his new whipping boy - so I turned around and with all my might, made a fist and hit him square in the jaw.
我知道如果我不敢面对他，我将成为又一个被他欺负的倒霉鬼，于是我转过身，用尽所有的力量，一拳打在他的下巴上。
The boy richly deserves whipping.
这男孩完全应该被揍一顿。
The directors are clearly responsible for what happened, but they're sure to find a whipping boy lower down the company.
虽然这事显然是主管的责任，但他们肯定会从公司下层里找一个替罪羊。
The directors are clearly responsible for what happened, but they're sure to find a whipping boy lower down the company.
虽然这事显然是主管的责任，但他们肯定会从公司下层里找一个替罪羊。
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