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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Researches on effect of luring gadfly device on field test
曼聂拖罢(Manitobu)诱虻器诱虻效果现场试验研究 - "The Gadfly, Martin Eden, Pavel Korchagin, and*."
牛虻,马丁-伊登,保尔-柯察金,还有 - Rewriting in Fiction Translation and Character Deformation& A Case Study of the Chinese Version of The Gadfly
小说翻译中的改写与人物变形&《牛虻》译本个案分析 - 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。