bogeyman

美 [ˈboʊɡimæn]英 [ˈbəʊɡimæn]
  • n.(用以吓唬小孩的)鬼怪

复数: bogeymen

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noun

【不规则形式】pl. -men

(用以吓唬小孩的)鬼怪
an imaginary evil spirit that is used to frighten children

The bogeyman's coming!

妖怪来了!

also bogyman
also BrE also bogey bogy
also NAmE usually boogeyman

bogeyman

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  • 2
    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。

  • 3
    N-COUNT (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.

noun

1
an imaginary monster used to frighten children
Synonym: bugbear bugaboo boogeyman booger

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  1. The bogeyman 's coming !

    妖怪来了!

  2. The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman .

    媒体把他描述成一个左翼大反派。

  3. The newspapers had portrayed him as the new economic bogeyman .

    报纸把他说成是新的经济怪人。

  4. 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?

  5. Well , for a start , that 's where the bogeyman lives .

    好的,就说一点,妖怪们住在那边。

  6. 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。

  7. National security is just their favorite bogeyman .

    “国家安全”只是他们最爱用的幌子

  8. 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。

  9. 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。

  10. 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。

  11. 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。

  12. 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。

  13. 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。

  14. 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。

  15. 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。

  16. 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。

  17. It was said to resemble a bogeyman or a tokoloshe ( an African mythical creature ) and had one paw and one claw .

    据说它很像一种妖怪或者托科洛希(非洲南部班图民间传说中似人的恶魔),有一只手爪和一只脚爪。

  18. 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。

  19. Their graphic counter-attack began with popular illustrated histories of their rebellion against the Spanish monarchy - with the Duke of Alva their favourite bogeyman .

    他们的漫画反击战起从流行的历史漫画开始,主题是荷兰人抗击西班牙王室,而阿尔瓦公爵(DukeofAlva)是他们最喜欢描绘的反面人物。

  20. 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。

  21. Republicans have decided that government spending , not outdated infrastructure , is the real bogeyman , and Republican governors in Florida , Wisconsin and Ohio have rejected federal money to begin building .

    共和党人决定政府的开支不应花在过时的基础设施建设上,这是建造高铁的困难所在,在弗罗里达,威斯康星和俄亥俄州的共和党州长已经拒绝了用联邦州政府的公债基金建设高铁。

  22. 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。

  23. In most of the rich world , the state 's share of the economy has stubbornly risen . Regulations - excessive as well as necessary - are tying up the private sector . Businesspeople are under scrutiny as they have not been for 30 years and bankers are everyone 's favourite bogeyman .

    在大多数富裕国家中,经济中的国有成分一直在顽固地增长,必要的监管和过度的监管正在束缚住私营部门,商人正在接受30年来所未曾有过的审查,银行家成为人人眼中的妖怪。