finger-pointing
/ˈfɪŋɡə pɔɪntɪŋ/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈfɪŋɡər pɔɪntɪŋ/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈfiŋ-gər-ˌpȯin-tiŋ/ (ame, mw)
finger-pointing — 名詞
1. the habit of publicly putting the blame on other people after a failure or mista
互相指責
出事後公開把過錯推到別人身上
the habit of publicly putting the blame on other people after a failure or mistake, often without taking any responsibility yourself.
After the project missed its deadline, there was a lot of finger-pointing between the two teams.
專案沒能如期完成後，兩個團隊之間出現了大量的互相指責。
collocation: finger-pointing between [parties]
Camille told her staff to stop the finger-pointing and focus on fixing the broken website.
Camille 要員工別再互相指責，把心思放在修好那個壞掉的網站上。
object of 'stop'; the typical management response
The meeting quickly turned into a round of finger-pointing over who had lost the client.
會議很快就變成一場互相指責，爭論到底是誰把客戶弄丟的。
Voters are tired of the constant finger-pointing between the two main political parties.
選民已經厭倦兩大政黨之間沒完沒了的互相指責。
Instead of finger-pointing, Takeshi asked his team what they could each do better next time.
Takeshi 沒有去指責別人，而是問團隊下一次大家各自可以怎麼做得更好。
- blame game
very informal; emphasises the back-and-forth nature, like a game with no winner
- scapegoating
more serious; focuses on unfairly choosing one person or group to carry all the blame
- recrimination
formal; mutual accusations between people who blame each other
- accountability
the opposite stance: accepting responsibility for your own part in a failure
文法句型
a round of finger-pointing
finger-pointing between [parties]
finger-pointing over [issue]
用法筆記
Almost always uncountable and used with a negative tone — speakers use it to criticise the blaming behaviour, not to describe a neutral process. Typical modifiers are 'a lot of', 'constant', 'mutual', and 'endless'.