bugaboo

基本解釋

And in the case of rapidly expanding emerging economies, the moderation can be seen as a positive in the effort to get inflation, the main economic bugaboo, under control.
對于快速擴張的新興經(jīng)濟體來說，適度降溫可被看作有利于控制通脹，通脹是對經(jīng)濟的一大主要威脅。
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.
這個老區(qū)，被革命嚇壞了，就到睡夢中躲避危險，就象孩子們聽見妖怪來了，就急忙把頭藏進被窩里。
When it came to a perennial Clinton bugaboo - personnel - things began on a promising note.
談到長期困擾克林頓的人事任命這一令人頭疼的問題時，情形看來比較樂觀。

"FDA physicians and scientists were ridiculed and chastized for raising the bugaboo (fearful image) of radiation."

"We've heard that socialized-medicine bugaboo for 50 years, " said Earl Thayer, a political independent from Madison, Wis.
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"China right now is the current bugaboo, " says Dan Harris, a Seattle attorney who specializes in China issues.
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