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
- 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。 - 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 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - "The Gadfly, Martin Eden, Pavel Korchagin, and*."
牛虻,马丁-伊登,保尔-柯察金,还有 - 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。 - 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。