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
- 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 - "The Gadfly, Martin Eden, Pavel Korchagin, and*."
牛虻,马丁-伊登,保尔-柯察金,还有 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。