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　

GRE医学

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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• any of various large flies that annoy livestock
• a persistently annoying person
  Synonym:pestblightercusspesterer

双语例句

• 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'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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• The Gadfly's endurance was failing him at last.
  牛虻的忍受力也终于不能维持了。
• The domination of two legal research services over the publication of federal and state court decisions is being challenged by an Internet gadfly.
  二个合法的研究服务的支配在联邦和州法院判决的发布之上被一个网际网路形似苍蝇挑战。
• 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。
• 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。