bogeymen
英
美 [ˈboʊgiˌmɪn]
n. (用以吓唬小孩的)鬼怪
bogeyman的复数
柯林斯词典
- 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.- The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman.
媒体把他描述成一个左翼大反派。
- The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman.
- （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.
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。
双语例句
- For those disposed to be concerned about the impact on their national economies of global flows of capital, SWFs are the new bogeymen.
对于那些倾向于担忧全球资本流动对本国经济影响的国家来说，主权财富基金是一种新的可怕现象。 - You should never threaten her with bogeymen.
你千万不可用妖怪来吓唬她。 - Small children are right to fear the night but it is shift-worker, not bogeymen, they shall be worried about.
小孩子害怕晚上是正常的-但是他们应该担心的是上夜班的工人，而不是怪物。 - It is a stunning triumph of propaganda, where some people support policies that hurt them, because of false contrived bogeymen like freeloading illegals and welfare queens.
因为某些不劳而获的违法者和福利皇后这些怪物制造的假象而去支持伤害他们的政策，这的确让对方匪夷所思地不战而胜。 - While faith in China's ability to spend its way out of a slump endures, so should ICBC's grip on the top spot – however many bogeymen are lurking.
无论有多少“妖魔”潜伏其中，只要对于中国能够依靠投资摆脱衰退的信念不变，工行的排名就不会动摇。 - The global bogeymen of deleveraging and frozen credit markets are more fearsome in South Korea than most of Asia.
相对于大多数亚洲国家，韩国更为担心全球普遍担忧的去杠杆化和信贷市场冻结。