bogeyman

noun

1. （用以吓唬小孩的）鬼怪
   an imaginary evil spirit that is used to frighten children
   1. The bogeyman's coming!
      妖怪来了！

The spellings bogey man, and in American English boogeyman are also used. 亦拼作bogey man，美国英语中亦拼作boogeyman。


1. N-COUNT 怪人；怪物；坏蛋
   A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
   1. The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman.
      媒体把他描述成一个左翼大反派。
2. （父母用来吓唬小孩的）鬼怪，妖怪
   A bogeyman is an imaginary evil spirit. Some parents tell their children that the bogeyman will catch them if they behave badly.

1. The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman.
   媒体把他描述成一个左翼大反派。
2. When your kids are afraid of the dark or the bogeyman under the bed, the appropriate thing as a parent is to be sensitive to their fears but also not to panic yourself.
   当你的孩子怕黑或者担心床下有妖怪时，身为父母的正确处理方法应该是既敏锐地察觉到他们的恐惧心理，同时自己也不要慌了神。
3. Web services standards too are threatened by the complexity bogeyman, but an alternative strategy known as REST promises a more straightforward approach.
   Web服务标准也受到复杂性恶魔的威胁，但是称作REST的替代策略承诺了更简单的方式。
4. That was not the case in the 1930s, which is why deflation remains the modern policy bogeyman.
   20世纪30年代的情况则并非如此，这正是现代政策依然将通缩视为洪水猛兽的原因。
5. Second, Wall Street is no longer the only bogeyman people such as Ms Warren love to attack.
   第二，华尔街不再是沃伦这样的人士喜欢抨击的唯一恶人。
6. Faster growth should also dispel worries about another Fed bogeyman: deflation, or falling prices.
   为保证更快的经济增长就必须要要消除美联储所担忧的另一个恶魔：通货紧缩，或者说价格下降。
7. Such a feeble west plays the part of bogeyman.
   这样一个孱弱的西方扮演着骇人的妖怪。
8. The newspapers had portrayed him as the new economic bogeyman.
   报纸把他说成是新的经济怪人。
9. But why has the oil bogeyman become less scary?
   但是为什么这石油幽灵变得不那么可怕了呢？
10. I know Replenishment is a popular bogeyman, but we don't think Replenishment itself is the problem. It's just a generous source of regen at a time when there are many generous sources of regen.
    我知道回复是一个很热门的东西，但是我们不觉得回复本身是个问题，它只是在一段时间中许多恢复手段中的的一个恢复手段。
11. But he is a bogeyman from a bygone age.
    但是现在有关自由市场的一切都是过去式了。
12. But to cast globalisation as the bogeyman is a mistake.
    但是，将全球化描述为妖魔鬼怪是一种错误。
13. Fear and hype surround radiation, which has become something of a bogeyman in part because of popular culture.
    有关核辐射的恐惧和炒作由于在某种程度上受大众文化影响，变得像鬼怪一样。
14. Genetically modified crops are not a panacea, but they are also not the bogeyman the media has allowed the public to believe.
    转基因作物不是万灵药，但是它们也不是怪物，而媒体让公众相信它们是怪物。
15. Well, for a start, that's where the bogeyman lives.
    好的，就说一点，妖怪们住在那边。
16. Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
    忧惧根植在黑暗中；假使你想像附近有吓人的鬼怪，就开灯吧。
17. There was no Halloween bogeyman in the closet for one Brooklyn woman& just a7-foot-long python in her toilet.
    对于纽约布鲁克林区的一名妇女来说，并没有万圣节怪物藏在厕所里，有的只是一条长达7英尺的巨蟒。

noun

1. an imaginary monster used to frighten children

   Synonym:    bugbearbugabooboogeymanbooger