In Scottish, bu-kow was a word for hobgoblins or any particularly terrifying creature.

在苏格兰语中，“bu-kow”描述怪或任何特别可怕生物。

But the hobgoblin saw through the pretended person.

但怪看穿了这假冒者。

'What will you give me, ' said the hobgoblin, 'to do it for you'?

“你愿意给我什么， ” 大地精说，“让我为你做这件事” ？

When she hung over the foot of their bed and outlined the work she expected them to do when they recovered, they looked at her as if she were a hobgoblin.

每当她坐在她们脚边，设想她们病好以后她要叫她们做工作时，她们总注视着她，仿佛她魔似。

At last some of the men determined to find out what this strange light was-whether it was a hobgoblin dancing in the air, or something dropped from the sky.

最后，其中几人决定要去探，到底这灯光什么怪物——到底怪在空中乱舞呢，还从天上掉下来什么东西。

This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, which they greedily listen to, and dare not go to bed for fear.

他们很容易遇到这种谈话，就像男孩子乐于听到鬼魂和精可怕故事时发现那样，他们贪婪地听着这些故事，因为害怕而不敢上睡觉。