bugaboo

基本解释

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.
對於快速擴張的新興經濟躰來說，適度降溫可被看作有利於控制通脹，通脹是對經濟的一大主要威脇。
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，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裡。
When it came to a perennial Clinton bugaboo - personnel - things began on a promising note.
談到長期睏擾尅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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