bugaboo

The old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them.

通货膨胀的老大难问题仍然困扰着他们.

Signs of it were revealed by the absence of reporting on the big bugaboo of the past few years: the US current account deficit.

这方面的征兆是有关美国经常账户赤字的报道突然偃旗息鼓，而这曾是过去几年中一个严重的问题。

People made noise in ancient times to drive away the bugaboo from the home.

在古代，人们制造噪声以便把鬼怪驱逐出家门。

But creating something useful is the bugaboo.

但是，创造出有用的东西听来有点唬人。

For a decade or so Japan's lost decade has been the great bugaboo of modern macroeconomics.

日本在这大概十年间的失败已经成为当今宏观经济学家吓人用的鬼怪.

Bugaboo for children, Jehovah for men. Let us not be terrified into compliance – their threats are probably a bluff.

奶妈发明了妖怪来吓唬小孩，也发明了耶和华来吓唬大人。我们别被吓得屈从－他们的威胁有可能是吓唬人。

The bugaboo this time is black holes.

这次扮演毁灭世界的妖魔鬼怪的是黑洞。