bugaboo

bugaboo

英 ['bʌgəbuː]
　　美 ['bʌɡəbu]

n. 妖怪，鬼怪；令人煩惱或恐懼的原因

中文詞源：

bugaboo 恐怖的東西

來自bugbear 變體。

例句：

1. People made noise in ancient times to drive away the bugaboo from the home.
在古代，人們制造噪聲以便把鬼怪驅逐出傢門。

2. The old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them.
通貨膨脹的老大難問題仍然困擾著他們.

3. For a decade or so Japan's lost decade has been the great bugaboo of modern macroeconomics.
日本在這大概十年間的失敗已經成為當今宏觀經濟學傢嚇人用的鬼怪.

4. When it came to a perennial Clinton bugaboo - personnel - things began on a promising note.
克林頓剛剛看到即將擺脫困擾他多時的私人瑣事的希望.