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

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