英语释义

• an imaginary monster used to frighten children

片语

bogyman可怕的人或物；精灵；妖怪

bogle妖怪；可怕的人或物

英汉例句

• Fear grows in darkness; if you think there「s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

  黑暗中产生恐惧；如果你认为你的周围有魔鬼，就将灯打开。

• The presidential handover in 2008 will be a risky period in the highly personalised system of government Mr Putin has created: the old foreign bogeyman may help.

  2008年的总统权力过渡对于俄罗斯来说将会是个危险时期，因为俄罗斯政府已经被普京高度私人化：对此「美国的威胁」可能会有所助益。

• There was no Halloween bogeyman in the closet for one Brooklyn woman — just a 7-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。

• But Jobs is also the bogeyman that has forced fearful media bosses to change their approach to Webified TV.

  但是乔布斯还是个迫使忧心忡忡的媒体老板转向网络化电视的可怕的妖怪。

• 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。

• Shouts of 「Death to America!」may have echoed around Friday prayers in Tehran over the past 30 years, but the older imperial superpower has been a bogeyman in Iran for far longer.

  「打倒美国」的高呼回响在伊朗星期五的祈祷日可能已经有30年了，但是英国作为一个古老的超级帝国在伊朗被视为可怕的恶魔已经有更久远的历史。

• One of the great curiosities of recent years has been the transformation of Tony Benn from a national bogeyman to national treasure.

  近年来最令人好奇的事之一是托尼·本从国家恶魔变成了国宝。

• 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？

• 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。

• 「It」s not about rationing care-that's always the bogeyman people use to block reform,」 says Dr. Elliott Fisher, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School.

  「这不是定量医疗保健——而总是人们用来阻止改革的魔鬼，」达特茅斯医学院的教授艾略特·费舍尔博士说。