bugbear: [16] Early references to bugbear suggest that it was a sort of bug – ‘frightening creature’ – conjured up to frighten naughty children. It is usually assumed that the second element of the word simply represents the animal ‘bear’, and that the frightening creature was represented as being in the shape of a bear. The modern sense ‘source of annoyance’ developed in the late 19th century.
bugbear (n.)
1580s, a sort of demon in the form of a bear that eats small children, also "object of dread" (whether real or not), from obsolete bug "goblin, scarecrow" (see bug (n.)) + bear (n.).
例文
1. Inflation is the government 's main bugbear .
インフレは政府が最も頭を抱えている問題だ。
2.Inflation is the Government 's main bugbear .
インフレは政府の主要な難題である。
3.Money is my biggest bugbear .
私が一番困っているのはお金です。
4.University reform had long been his bugbear ，and now was his bane.
大学改革はとっくに頭を痛めていたことが、今ではさらに災いになっている。
5.The rise of moralism was a bugbear to Lord Byron，born in 1788.