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
- The Gadfly's endurance was failing him at last.
牛虻的忍受力也终于不能维持了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。