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
- 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 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。 - 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 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - A Study of the Deletion as to the Characters in the Chinese Version of the Gadfly
《牛虻》中译本中人物形象的删节研究 - 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。