(noun.) an object of dread or apprehension; 'Germany was always a bugbear for France'; 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds'--Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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双语例句
Not that he feared fighting; ridicule alone was the bugbear, which made him smother his rising anger till he had quite subdued it. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.