gadfly的中文翻譯是什麼意思

gadfly

US/ˈɡædˌflaɪ/
UK/ˈgædflaɪ/

n. 牛虻

gadfly柯林斯釋義

N-COUNT討人厭者;有意攪擾他人者;(尤指)故意挑戰權威者

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.

    布坎南只是故意攪局還是對總統構成真正的威脅,這還有待觀察。

gadfly英文釋義

Noun

1. a persistently annoying person

    2. any of various large flies that annoy livestock

      gadfly場景例句

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

      儘管在那兒幹了30多年,她與職工之間依然直來直去, 有時也刺兒你一下,我就喜歡她的那種性格.

      Ethel Lilian Voynich published Gadfly in 1904.

      艾捷爾·麗蓮·夫尼契於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》一書由愛爾蘭女作家艾捷爾?麗蓮?伏尼契寫成並於1897年在英國出版.

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

      瓊瑪雖感到牛虻是亞瑟, 卻不能確定.

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

      一個男生說,他想做牛虻, 像蘇格拉底一樣.

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      gadfly詞性變形

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      gadfly近義詞

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