Armenia away from home, I thought that they were whipping boys on their travels.

亚美尼亚远离家乡，我还以为他们是在他们的旅行鞭打男孩。

But we need a whipping boy, and economists have always, kind of, been whipping boys.

但我们需要一个替罪羊，而经济学家们一直，种，被鞭打男孩。

While there is no record attesting5 how well this worked in practice, we do know that some Kings later rewarded their whipping boys with land and nobility roles.

尽管没有记录证实这一做法的实际效果如何，我们确知的一点是，有些国王后来会赐给他们的替罪羊土地和爵位。

Peter Crouch, Emile Heskey, to take two favourite whipping boys, are more talented than they’re given credit for and certainly far from the stereotypical big lumbering centre forwards of old.

克劳奇，赫斯基，拿这两个被敲打最多的小伙子来说，他们的天赋远远高过得到的认可，他们肯定远远不是那种又大又笨的老式高中锋。

These boys are whipping tops.

这些男孩子正在抽陀螺。