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
- 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - Separation and Preparation of Multi-peptide Samples in Gadfly Insect by High Performance Preparative Liquid Chromatography
高效制备液相色谱法分离制备虻虫中的多肽样品 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。
