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.
对于快速扩张的新兴经济体来说，适度降温可被看作有利于控制通胀，通胀是对经济的一大主要威胁。
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.
这个老区，被革命吓坏了，就到睡梦中躲避危险，就象孩子们听见妖怪来了，就急忙把头藏进被窝里。
When it came to a perennial Clinton bugaboo - personnel - things began on a promising note.
谈到长期困扰克林顿的人事任命这一令人头疼的问题时，情形看来比较乐观。

"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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