gadfly的中文翻译是什么意思

gadfly

US/ˈɡædˌflaɪ/
UK/ˈgædflaɪ/

n. 牛虻

gadfly柯林斯释义

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 a gadfly, 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。

gadfly英文释义

Noun

1. a persistently annoying person

    2. any of various large flies that annoy livestock

      gadfly场景例句

      She'd been there 30 years but was still a gadfly. I loved that.

      尽管在那儿干了30多年,她与职工之间依然直来直去, 有时也刺儿你一下,我就喜欢她的那种性格.

      Ethel Lilian Voynich published Gadfly in 1904.

      艾捷尔·丽莲·夫尼契于1904年出版了《牛虻》.

      The Gadfly was written by Irish authoress Ethel Lilian Voynich and published in England in 1897.

      《牛虻》一书由爱尔兰女作家艾捷尔?丽莲?伏尼契写成并于1897年在英国出版.

      Gemma thought Gadfly was Arthur, but she could not make sure.

      琼玛虽感到牛虻是亚瑟, 却不能确定.

      One guy said he'd like to be a gadfly, like Socrates.

      一个男生说,他想做牛虻, 像苏格拉底一样.

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