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

• 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。
• It is the sort of book its average reader would have written were he, too stung by the gadfly of self-expression.
  如果此类书的一般读者在受到爱自我表现的人打击之后，也能够写出这种书出来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Lastly, it is worth mentioning the ideological manipulation in the adapted Soviet film The Gadfly dubbed into Chinese, which was shown in the cinemas throughout China.
  最后，还需一提的是体现在由苏联引进的、在中国各大电影院放映的译制影片《牛虻》的意识形态操纵作用。
• 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。
• 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。
• Separation and Preparation of Multi-peptide Samples in Gadfly Insect by High Performance Preparative Liquid Chromatography
  高效制备液相色谱法分离制备虻虫中的多肽样品
• It also illustrated how the Syrian hackers, who target entities opposed to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, could use relatively simple techniques to turn their gadfly disruptions into something more menacing.
  它显示出，叙利亚黑客可以运用相对简单的技术，将平常的网络干扰升级成更具威胁的攻击。这些黑客以反对总统巴沙尔•阿萨德（Basharal-Assad）政权的实体为攻击对象。