N-COUNT A bogeyman is an imaginary evil spirit. Some parents tell their children that the bogeyman will catch them if they behave badly. 鬼怪 [oft 'the' N]
N-COUNT A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid. 怪物 [usu with supp] [表不满]
The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman.
媒体把他描绘成一个左翼怪物。
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？
IN BRITAIN it is the bogeyman that comes to take away naughty children.
在英国，妖怪会来带走淘气的孩子。
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。
That's what he's always represented to me I was just truly embracing the bogeyman in a campfire story."
VOA: standard.2010.05.04
"What I embraced was the bogeyman." "To me Freddy has always been this serial killer.
VOA: standard.2010.05.04
I want to scare a new generation of people with this movie and I want Freddy Krueger to be what I feel Wes Craven intended him to be, which is a real bogeyman, because I want it to be really scary.
VOA: standard.2010.05.04
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