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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 - 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。