bugaboo
bugaboo 英 ['bʌgəbuː] 美 ['bʌɡəbu]
n. 妖怪，鬼怪；令人烦恼或恐惧的原因
名词复数:bugaboos
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- n. 妖怪，鬼怪；令人烦恼或恐惧的原因
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1. For a decade or so Japan’s lost decade has been the great bugaboo of modern macroeconomics.
日本在这大概十年间的失败已经成为当今宏观经济学家吓人用的鬼怪。
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2. This good, old quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as children, when they hear the bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily under their coverlet.
这个老区，被革命吓坏了，就到睡梦中躲避危险，就象孩子们听见妖怪来了，就急忙把头藏进被窝里。
- bugaboo (n.) "something to frighten a child, fancied object of terror," 1843, earlier buggybow (1740), probably an alteration of bugbear (also see bug (n.)), but connected by Chapman ["Dictionary of American Slang"] with Bugibu, demon in the Old French poem "Aliscans" from 1141, which is perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Cornish bucca-boo, from bucca "bogle, goblin").
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