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。 - So she sent a gadfly to bother the poor cow.
所以她派了一只牛蝇去打扰这只可怜的牛。 - Approaching Gadfly& Reflections on the Feelings of the Leading Character of Gadfly by Voynich
走近牛虻&试探《牛虻》主人公情感世界 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - "The Gadfly, Martin Eden, Pavel Korchagin, and*."
牛虻,马丁-伊登,保尔-柯察金,还有