patsies

英

美 [ˈpætsiz]

n.  容易吃亏上当者; 容易成为替罪羊者
patsy的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 糊涂蛋；容易上当的人
  If you describe someone as apatsy, you mean that they are rather stupid and are easily tricked by other people, or can be made to take the blame for other people's actions.
  1. Davis was nobody's patsy...
     戴维斯不会上任何人的当。
  2. He has long felt that Ray was set up, that he was a patsy.
     他一直觉得雷是被人陷害的，他是个糊涂蛋。

双语例句

• Think boards of directors packed with patsies, books cooked to juice earnings, potential whistleblowers silenced, golden parachutes, and finally taxpayers obliged to save expensively tanned hides.
  想想轻信的董事会、粉饰盈利的帐本、举报人被封口、为高管提供丰厚离职补偿金的黄金降落伞制度等等，最终付出昂贵代价的却是纳税人。
• Indeed, shareholders such as pension funds and insurance companies may be the patsies in another way.
  当然，这些股东们诸如抚恤基金和保险公司也可能在另一种方式上成为受骗者。
• Despite claims to the contrary, banks frequently play customers for patsies, keeping the best investments for themselves while selling leftovers to clients.
  尽管嘴上否认，但投行频繁将客户当做傻子耍，把最好的投资留给自己，而把剩饭剩菜留给客户。
• Lee Harvey Oswald, a crazed, lonely man who wanted attention and got it by killing a President was only the first in a long line of patsies.
  谎话说的越大，便越多人相信。一个孤独的疯子奥斯华，只是众多代罪羔羊之一。
• Students are already leaving university with record levels of debt and it would be totally unacceptable to fill the panel with people who are either government patsies or predisposed to higher fees.
  学生们离开学校时已经背负一身债务，由政府那群懦夫或倾向收取高昂学费的人组成评审小组是绝对不能接受的。