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 - 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。 - 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。 - It's another round of Whack-A-Mole, Gadfly's replacement is as likely to be as bad or worse than the one you just whacked.
这只是另一次打鼹鼠游戏，卡扎菲位置的替换有可能会带来更糟糕的后果。 - 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。 - 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。 - The Gadfly's endurance was failing him at last.
牛虻的忍受力也终于不能维持了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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