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bugaboo

/buhg-uh-boo/US // ˈbʌg əˌbu //UK // (ˈbʌɡəˌbuː) //

虫虫,虫子,窃听器,蝽蟓

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bug·a·boos.

    • : something that causes fear or worry; bugbear; bogy.

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Examples

  • The charges of “Marxism” and “socialism” are being hurled at both the right’s new cultural bugaboos and at Democratic economic policies.

  • Those trying to distract us with the bugaboo of critical race theory fail to see how much we all need not only a reckoning with slavery and its legacies, but examples of courage and persistence.

  • Gwyneth Paltrow wheeled her daughter Apple around London in a Bugaboo pram.

  • Not exactly a Bugaboo, sure, but it does have a nifty one-hand folding feature and weighs only 11 pounds.

  • Indeed, the coming LGBT tyranny is a long-standing bugaboo for Porter.

  • Can we return the souped-up Bugaboo strollers and turn off the shiny iPhone rattles in favor of simpler tools for raising a child?

  • Over-optimistic forecasts, coupled with underperformance, have long been a GM bugaboo.

  • I want to tell you not to fear this bugaboo of interstate competition.

  • All sorts of atrocities ensued, and Black Hawk's name became a household bugaboo the country over.

  • The old bugaboo about earthquakes throwing it down is a danger that exists only in the minds of those who see ghosts.

  • Such men find it easy to transform into a bugaboo any one who appears to them to be acting irregularly.

  • They both had a good laugh, for they feared nothing in this Universe; least of all that great bugaboo, poverty.