Obama would do well to avoid such scapegoating.

奥巴马将会做得更好，不会成为那样的替罪羊。

Scapegoating. You imply that the other person is defective or inadequate.

暗示他人是有缺陷和不足的。

So, though scapegoating works, beyond a certain point it gets rather costly.

所以，尽管找替罪羊这招儿肯定奏效，但做得过火了的话代价会很高。

Washington's scapegoating of China could take the world to the brink of a very slippery slope.

华盛顿方面找中国作替罪羊，可能会把世界推向灾难性下滑的边缘。

So instead they are relying more on scapegoating prominent wrongdoers in the hope that this will deter others.

所以，他们转而越加依赖迁怒突出的作恶者，希望借此以儆效尤、威慑其他网络公司。