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Her authority in this new group was brittle and, like the fear of a bugbear by all of the young bees, all of the worker bees were watching to see if she would lead well.
她在这个新群体中的权威岌岌可危，就像所有小蜜蜂都害怕妖怪一样，所有工蜂都拭目以待，看她是不是能当好这个领导。
Western criticism has bolstered those in Tehran whose instinct, at the first sign of trouble at home, is to seek foreign scapegoats. At the top of the list comes Iran’s favourite bugbear, Britain.
一旦国内稍有状况，德黑兰的一些人便本能地在海外寻找替罪羊，西方评论对此加以了抨击，而位列替罪羊名单首位的，就是英国。
Now we think of a bugbear as something annoying, a thing that bugs you, but originally a bugbear was thought to be a supernatural creature in the form of a bear that specifically preyed on children.
现在我们用bugbear来指令人讨厌的事物，让人心烦的事。但最初，bugbear被认为是一种超自然的生物，有着熊的外形，专门捕食小孩。

The Spanish now rate politicians as a bigger problem than their old bugbear, terrorism.
ECONOMIST: Spain's economic woes
However, we also need to consider politics, the usual bugbear of any rational plan.
FORBES: Vodafone and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Its new bugbear is the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard), a self-styled civil-defence group.
ECONOMIST: The Hungarian far right