bogeyman
n. 可怕的人或物;妖怪(等于 bogyman)
复数 bogeymen
例句
The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman.
媒体把他描绘成一个左翼怪物。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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?