- 1令人煩惱或擔憂的事物
A bugbear is a thing that makes people or worried — a problem that keeps coming back. Slow trains can be a bugbear. Hard homework can be a bugbear. The word feels a little old, and a little British, though Americans say it too. Long ago it meant a scary creature grown-ups used to children. That monster sense is mostly gone. Though actually, you can still hear a little of it: a bugbear is the thing someone dreads, not only the thing that nags. In ordinary talk now it is milder than terror. It is this really bothers me.
core核心畫面
組成From an old meaning of bug — something terrifying, the same family as bogey — plus bear, the animal. People pictured a scary bear-like thing. The bug here is not the insect.
同家族的字
- bogeysame old scary bug
- bogeymansame old scary bug; the monster used to frighten children
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bugbearnoun/ˈbʌɡ.bɛə(ɹ)/
- 1
An ongoing problem; a recurring obstacle or adversity.
- Stone ballast is now used throughout the main line, and has the additional advantage of eliminating the previous bugbear of dust.
- Level crossings are the bugbear of railway operation at Hull. There are no fewer than 16 within the city boundary.
- 2
A source of dread; resentment; or irritation.
- What has this Bugbear Death to frighten Man, If Souls can die, as well as Bodies can?
- But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate.
- 3
artsfantasyfolkloreA generic creature, often described as a large goblin, meant to inspire fear in children.
- Ha, ha: alas poore wretch: a poore Chipochia, haſt not ſlept to night? would he not (a naughty man) let it ſleepe: a bug-beare take him.
- “How could you lie so glaringly as to affirm I hated the ‘poor child’? and invent bugbear stories to terrify her from my door-stones?[…]”
bugbearverb/ˈbʌɡ.bɛə(ɹ)/
- 1
To alarm with idle phantoms.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。