By a humble spark a town is set on fire. IN THE film Mars Attacks, bug-eyed aliens blow up the Landmark, a casino-hotel in Las Vegas.

A decade later, a coy Monroe stands smiling on a Grand Central subway platform as a man to her left stares in bug-eyed disbelief.

十年之后，腼腆的梦露站在中央地铁站的月台上微笑时，此时她左边的一位男士则目瞪口呆地怀疑地盯着她。

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More outlandish versions of the legend painted them as bug-eyed monsters who would kill and eat surface dwellers who strayed into their territory.

另一种更古怪的传说将他们描绘成巨眼怪物（bug-eye monster），会杀死并吃掉误入其领地的地面居民。

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They caught a glimpse of him sometimes, with his haughty head, angular and bug-eyed, getting groceries in the village;

他到村里买东西时，他们有时会捕捉到他的身影&头上昂，脸颊棱角分明，金鱼眼；

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Bug-eyed piersall fans are boosting him as a hot major-league prospect.

凸眼皮索迷帮他成为联盟热门选秀人员。

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I see that Bill Gates, that bug-eyed little weasel, is acting like you don't exist.

我看那个比尔？盖茨，那个眼球突出的小滑头，做起事来好像您不存在。

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I waited for him to snort, get bug-eyed, break and run.

我等待着它喷鼻息，惊讶得目瞪口呆，然后突然转身逃跑。

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Bugaboo for children, Jehovah for men. Let us not be terrified into compliance – their threats are probably a bluff.

奶妈发明了妖怪来吓唬小孩，也发明了耶和华来吓唬大人。我们别被吓得屈从－他们的威胁有可能是吓唬人。

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Signs of it were revealed by the absence of reporting on the big bugaboo of the past few years: the US current account deficit.

这方面的征兆是有关美国经常账户赤字的报道突然偃旗息鼓，而这曾是过去几年中一个严重的问题。

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But creating something useful is the bugaboo.

但是，创造出有用的东西听来有点唬人。

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The bugaboo this time is black holes.

这次扮演毁灭世界的妖魔鬼怪的是黑洞。

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The bugaboos in larger versions of this optimistic vision are highly variable flows of material, and decentralized, dilute concentrations of reclaimable stuff.

这个乐观观点的描述最多的，莫过于高变异性的物质流动，以及可回收物质密度的分散和稀释。

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5: Tumbling stock prices and the low level of consumer confidence are some of the bugaboos that can bring the nation's economy down from the present level.

他说：下跌的股票价格和消费者低落的信心是令人忧虑的根由，并且会导致国家经济从目前水平下降。

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One of OPEC's biggest bugaboos is losing control of prices to hedge funds and other speculators that they view collectively as upstarts.

欧佩克最感头痛的一个问题是，油价控制权正在被冲基金和其他投机商夺走。

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Which would you rather own for a year: a private jet or a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport?

如果都可以开一年，你愿意开私人飞机，还是布加迪威龙（Bugatti Veyron）的“Grand Sport”跑车？

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Undoubtedly, Bugatti is the most prestigious name in auto history.

毫无疑问，布加迪汽车是整个汽车历史上最名声显赫的。

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It bears tall tapering racemes of white midsummer flowers on wiry black-purple stems, whose mildly unpleasant, medicinal smell at close range gives it the common name "Bugbane".

于仲夏时节由结实的黑紫色的顶端抽出高耸的白色总状花序，不过它的花气味凑近时不太好闻。

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North American bugbane found from Main and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia. That law was modelled on measures already passed in Georgia and Arizona.

北美升麻，分布于缅因州，安大略州，威斯康星州及乔治亚州南部。该法案仿效了在乔治亚州和亚利桑那州得到通过的法案。

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Bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers.

西伯利亚和东亚升麻，有异味，花绿白色。

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Small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane. Inducing sleep or sedation; soporific.

北温带地区北部多年生草本植物的一个小属；美洲升麻，升麻属植物。

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One famous exchange with Martin Gilbert, a British historian, involved the question of whether Winston Churchill had ever engaged in buggery:

一次与英国历史学家马丁·吉尔伯特交谈时，兰博问道，温斯顿·丘吉尔是否参与过鸡奸：

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