gadfly

英 [ˈɡædflaɪ]

美 [ˈɡædflaɪ]

n.  (为使别人做某事而对其进行骚扰或批评的)讨人厌者

复数：gadflies　

GRE医学

BNC.39260 / COCA.25817

牛津词典

noun

• （为使别人做某事而对其进行骚扰或批评的）讨人厌者
  a person who annoys or criticizes other people in order to make them do sth

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 讨人厌者；有意搅扰他人者;（尤指）故意挑战权威者
  If you refer to someone as agadfly, you believe that they deliberately annoy or challenge other people, especially people in authority.
  1. It still remains to be seen whether Buchanan will be just a gadfly or a real threat to the president.
     布坎南只是故意搅局还是对总统构成真正的威胁，这还有待观察。

英英释义

noun

• any of various large flies that annoy livestock
• a persistently annoying person
  Synonym:pestblightercusspesterer

双语例句

• He brings with it important benefits and in the passage that I'm referring to, he defines himself as a gadfly, everyone will remember that, the gadfly who improves the quality of life in the city.
  他强调能带来显著好处，在我将引用的段落中，他自称是只牛虻，众人都将铭记，是牛虻改善了，城邦的生活质量。
• The Gadfly's endurance was failing him at last.
  牛虻的忍受力也终于不能维持了。
• Rewriting in Fiction Translation and Character Deformation& A Case Study of the Chinese Version of The Gadfly
  小说翻译中的改写与人物变形&《牛虻》译本个案分析
• It still remains to be seen whether Buchanan will be just a gadfly or a real threat to the president.
  布坎南只是故意搅局还是对总统构成真正的威胁，这还有待观察。
• Researches on effect of luring gadfly device on field test
  曼聂拖罢（Manitobu）诱虻器诱虻效果现场试验研究
• Can be subsequently Gadfly team who won a great deal of trust and respect, we completely changed his views.
  可到后来，牛虻赢得了全队人极大的信任和尊敬，彻底改变了大家对他的看法。
• The domination of two legal research services over the publication of federal and state court decisions is being challenged by an Internet gadfly.
  二个合法的研究服务的支配在联邦和州法院判决的发布之上被一个网际网路形似苍蝇挑战。
• DiLorenzo's subject was the filmmaker and liberal gadfly Michael Moore.
  蒂洛伦佐谈到了制片人和自由牛虻迈克尔·摩尔。
• FOR a week the Gadfly lay in a fearful state.
  整整一个星期，牛虻的病都处于严重的状态。
• It's another round of Whack-A-Mole, Gadfly's replacement is as likely to be as bad or worse than the one you just whacked.
  这只是另一次打鼹鼠游戏，卡扎菲位置的替换有可能会带来更糟糕的后果。