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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "The Gadfly, Martin Eden, Pavel Korchagin, and*."
  牛虻，马丁-伊登，保尔-柯察金，还有
• The Gadfly's endurance was failing him at last.
  牛虻的忍受力也终于不能维持了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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