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
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.- 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。
- It still remains to be seen whether Buchanan will be just a gadfly or a real threat to the president.
英英释义
noun
- any of various large flies that annoy livestock
- a persistently annoying person
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - So she sent a gadfly to bother the poor cow.
所以她派了一只牛蝇去打扰这只可怜的牛。 - 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 - A Study of the Deletion as to the Characters in the Chinese Version of the Gadfly
《牛虻》中译本中人物形象的删节研究 - The Gadfly's endurance was failing him at last.
牛虻的忍受力也终于不能维持了。 - Detractors see him differently: as a dangerous anti-American gadfly, indiscriminately revealing information regardless of the consequences.
批评者则看法不同，他们认为他是一个危险的反美鼓吹者，不计后果、不加甄别地泄露信息。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。