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

在苏格兰语中，“bu-kow”描述的是妖怪或任何特别可怕的生物。

But the hobgoblin saw through the pretended person.

但妖怪看穿了这个假冒者。

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

“你愿什么， ” 大地精说，“让为你做这件事” ？

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的工作时，她们总是她，仿佛她是个妖魔似的。

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，其中几个人决定要去探个究竟，到底这个灯光是什么怪物——到底是妖怪在空中乱舞呢，还是从天上掉下来的什么东西。

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妖精的可怕故事时发现的那样，他们贪婪地听这些故事，因为害怕而不敢上睡觉。