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
- She sent a gadfly to attack the cow and drive her from land to land.
她派了一只牛蝇侵害这只牛并把牛逼的到处跑。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。