bugaboo
英 ['b?g?bu?]
美['b?ɡ?bu]
- n. 妖怪，鬼怪；令人煩惱或恐懼的原因
GRE
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?bugaboos;
助記提示
1. 頭上長(zhǎng)了“八個(gè)包”，嚇人的東西。
中文詞源
bugaboo 恐怖的東西
來(lái)自bugbear 變體。
英文詞源
- bugaboo (n.)
- 1843, earlier buggybow (1740), probably an alteration of bugbear (also see bug (n.)), but connected by Chapman ["Dictionary of American Slang"] with Bugibu, demon in the Old French poem "Aliscans" from 1141, which is perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Cornish bucca-boo, from bucca "bogle, goblin").
雙語(yǔ)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(qū)逐出家門。
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 2. The old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them.
- 通貨膨脹的老大難問(wèn)題仍然困擾著他們.
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- 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(jīng)成為當(dāng)今宏觀經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家嚇人用的鬼怪.
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- 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(shí)的私人瑣事的希望.
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