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

• 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。
• Approaching Gadfly& Reflections on the Feelings of the Leading Character of Gadfly by Voynich
  走近牛虻&试探《牛虻》主人公情感世界
• 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。
• But in the midst of an almost Utopian optimism about online education that I witnessed in Davos, I found myself playing an unaccustomed role: Gadfly.
  在达沃斯目睹了大家对网络教育近乎乌托邦式的乐观后，我发现自已要扮演一个很不习惯的角色：牛虻。
• COM and general digital music gadfly, read the news that Google ( GOOG) was releasing a service that allowed people to upload their music to the cloud.
  上周二，他从新闻中了解到：谷歌公司（Google）即将发布一项新服务，通过此服务，用户可以向云中上传其音乐。
• Egypt is a beautiful heifer; a gadfly from the North has come on her.
  埃及是肥美的母牛犊；但出于北方的牛来到她身上了。
• 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, Martin Eden, Pavel Korchagin, and*."
  牛虻，马丁-伊登，保尔-柯察金，还有
• 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。
• Courage, selflessness and strength of will stand out all over the Gadfly.
  勇敢、无私和意志力在牛虻身上全都表现得很突出。