bugaboo

noun

1. 恐怖的东西
   a thing that people are afraid of

1. 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。
2. The bugaboo this time is black holes.
   这次扮演毁灭世界的妖魔鬼怪的是黑洞。
3. Signs of it were revealed by the absence of reporting on the big bugaboo of the past few years: the US current account deficit.
   这方面的征兆是有关美国经常账户赤字的报道突然偃旗息鼓，而这曾是过去几年中一个严重的问题。
4. But creating something useful is the bugaboo.
   但是，创造出有用的东西听来有点唬人。
5. Bugaboo for children, Jehovah for men. Let us not be terrified into compliance – their threats are probably a bluff.
   奶妈发明了妖怪来吓唬小孩，也发明了耶和华来吓唬大人。我们别被吓得屈从－他们的威胁有可能是吓唬人。
6. If the sidewalks seem less clogged with Bugaboo strollers these days and you can't remember the last time you had to diaper a doll at a baby shower, it's not your imagination or fuzzy memory.
   如果现在人行道上的婴儿车不再拥堵，并且你想不起你最后一次在送礼会上为婴儿抱尿布的情景，这不是你的想象力或者记忆力出了问题。

noun

1. a source of concern
   1. the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them

2. an imaginary monster used to frighten children

   Synonym:    bogeymanbugbearboogeymanbooger