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。
The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman.
媒体把他描绘成一个左翼怪物。
There was no Halloween bogeyman in the closet for one Brooklyn woman in New York—just a 7-foot-long python in her toilet.
对于纽约布鲁克林区的一名妇女来说，并没有万圣节怪物藏在壁橱里——有的只是厕所里一条长达七英尺的巨蟒。
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？
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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