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
- 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 - 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 - 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。 - The multi-peptide samples in gadfly insect were separated and prepared by using high-performance preparative liquid chromatography. Four kinds of main ingredients were collected.
应用高效制备液相色谱法，分离虻虫中的多肽样品，制备收集了4种主要组分。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。