By a humble spark a town is set on fire. IN THE film Mars Attacks, bug-eyed aliens blow up the Landmark, a casino-hotel in Las Vegas.

A decade later, a coy Monroe stands smiling on a Grand Central subway platform as a man to her left stares in bug-eyed disbelief.

十年之后，腼腆的梦露站在中央地铁站的月台上微笑时，此时她左边的一位男士则目瞪口呆地怀疑地盯着她。

More outlandish versions of the legend painted them as bug-eyed monsters who would kill and eat surface dwellers who strayed into their territory.

另一种更古怪的传说将他们描绘成巨眼怪物（bug-eye monster），会杀死并吃掉误入其领地的地面居民。

They caught a glimpse of him sometimes, with his haughty head, angular and bug-eyed, getting groceries in the village;

他到村里买东西时，他们有时会捕捉到他的身影&头上昂，脸颊棱角分明，金鱼眼；

Bug-eyed piersall fans are boosting him as a hot major-league prospect.

凸眼皮索迷帮他成为联盟热门选秀人员。

I see that Bill Gates, that bug-eyed little weasel, is acting like you don't exist.

我看那个比尔？盖茨，那个眼球突出的小滑头，做起事来好像您不存在。

I waited for him to snort, get bug-eyed, break and run.

我等待着它喷鼻息，惊讶得目瞪口呆，然后突然转身逃跑。

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。

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。

But creating something useful is the bugaboo.

但是，创造出有用的东西听来有点唬人。

The bugaboo this time is black holes.

这次扮演毁灭世界的妖魔鬼怪的是黑洞。

The bugaboos in larger versions of this optimistic vision are highly variable flows of material, and decentralized, dilute concentrations of reclaimable stuff.

这个乐观观点的描述最多的，莫过于高变异性的物质流动，以及可回收物质密度的分散和稀释。

5: Tumbling stock prices and the low level of consumer confidence are some of the bugaboos that can bring the nation's economy down from the present level.

他说：下跌的股票价格和消费者低落的信心是令人忧虑的根由，并且会导致国家经济从目前水平下降。

One of OPEC's biggest bugaboos is losing control of prices to hedge funds and other speculators that they view collectively as upstarts.

欧佩克最感头痛的一个问题是，油价控制权正在被冲基金和其他投机商夺走。

Which would you rather own for a year: a private jet or a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport?

如果都可以开一年，你愿意开私人飞机，还是布加迪威龙（Bugatti Veyron）的“Grand Sport”跑车？

Undoubtedly, Bugatti is the most prestigious name in auto history.

毫无疑问，布加迪汽车是整个汽车历史上最名声显赫的。

It bears tall tapering racemes of white midsummer flowers on wiry black-purple stems, whose mildly unpleasant, medicinal smell at close range gives it the common name "Bugbane".

于仲夏时节由结实的黑紫色的顶端抽出高耸的白色总状花序，不过它的花气味凑近时不太好闻。

North American bugbane found from Main and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia. That law was modelled on measures already passed in Georgia and Arizona.

北美升麻，分布于缅因州，安大略州，威斯康星州及乔治亚州南部。该法案仿效了在乔治亚州和亚利桑那州得到通过的法案。

Bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers.

西伯利亚和东亚升麻，有异味，花绿白色。

Small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane. Inducing sleep or sedation; soporific.

北温带地区北部多年生草本植物的一个小属；美洲升麻，升麻属植物。

One famous exchange with Martin Gilbert, a British historian, involved the question of whether Winston Churchill had ever engaged in buggery:

一次与英国历史学家马丁·吉尔伯特交谈时，兰博问道，温斯顿·丘吉尔是否参与过鸡奸：