gadfly
n. [昆] 牛虻；讨厌的人
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牛虻；
变形
复数：gadflies
英英释义
gadfly[ 'ɡædflai ]
n.
a persistently annoying person
同义词：pestblightercusspesterer
any of various large flies that annoy livestock
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
The Gadfly's endurance was failing him at last.
牛虻的忍受力也终于不能维持了。
The Gadfly insisted that the work should be finished by the middle of June.
牛虻坚持必须在六月中旬之前把工作做完。
权威例句
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Number theory as gadfly
The Gadfly: An Approach to Architectural-Level System Comprehension
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The evolution of north-east Atlantic gadfly petrels using statistical phylogeography
Notes on the At-Sea Identification of Some Pacific Gadfly Petrels (Genus: Pterodroma)
The breeding biology of the gadfly petrels Pterodroma spp. of the Pitcairn Islands: characteristics, population sizes and controls
… gadfly petrels Pterodroma spp. from the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean: molecular evidence for specific status of Bugio and Cape Ver...
Phylogenetic relationships of gadfly petrels Pterodroma spp. from the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean: molecular evidence for specific s...
Breeding habitat and conservation priorities in Pterodroma baraui, an endangered gadfly petrel of the Mascarene archipelago
gadfly
gadfly: see yard
gadfly (n.)
also gad-fly, 1620s, "fly which bites cattle," probably from gad (n.) "goad, metal rod," here in the sense of "stinger;" but the sense is entangled with gad (v.) "rove about" (on the notion, perhaps, of the insect's power of flight or of the restlessness of animals plagued by them), and another early meaning of gadfly was "someone who likes to go about, often stopping here and there" (1610s). Sense of "one who irritates another" is from 1640s (equivalent of Latin oestrus; see estrus). "In strictness, only the females are gadflies, the males being smaller and quite inoffensive, living on juices of plants" [Century Dictionary]. Earlier bot-fly, from bot "skin parasite" (late 15c.).
1. 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。
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2. 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。
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3. The Gadfly 's endurance was failing him at last.
牛虻的忍受力也终于不能维持了。
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4. She'd been there 30 years but was still a gadfly.
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。
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5. 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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6. No matter I live, or I die, I was a gadfly, happy flying.
不管我活着，还是我死去，我都是一只牛虻，快乐地飞来飞去。——《牛虻》。
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7. After 13 years, an ugly man called Gadfly returned to Italy.
13年后，一个长相丑陋的叫牛虻的人回到了意大利。
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8. 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。
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9. 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。
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10. Maybe Arthur had been a truly gadfly, flying happily in the sky.
或许，亚瑟真的变成了一直牛虻，自由快乐地在天空中飞翔。
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11. DiLorenzo's subject was the filmmaker and liberal gadfly Michael Moore.
蒂洛伦佐谈到了制片人和自由牛虻迈克尔·摩尔。
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12. My favorite books are David Copperfield, Wuthering Heights and the Gadfly.
我最喜爱的书是《大卫·科波菲尔》，《呼啸山庄》和《牛虻》。
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13. The Gadfly insisted that the work should be finished by the middle of June.
牛虻坚持必须在六月中旬之前把工作做完。
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14. A gadfly is a large fly that continually bites and arouses a horse that is sluggish.
牛虻是很大的苍蝇，不断地叮和唤醒那些动作迟缓的马。
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15. At first only one newspaper, Hankyoreh, regarded as a provocative gadfly, dared print them.
一开始仅有一家报纸，Hankyoreh，它被认为是一只挑衅的牛虻，敢于刊登这些指控。
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16. 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。
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17. 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。
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18. The Gadfly was written by Irish authoress Ethel Lilian Voynich ~ 1and published in England in the year of 1897.
小说《牛虻》由爱尔兰女作者伏尼契写成并于1897年在英国出版。
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19. 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。
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20. He wasn't always universally accepted in America because he himself sort of liked to be the gadfly of the society.
在美国，他其实并不是一直都能被所有人接受的。
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21. The Gadfly has enormous influence and appeal in China. It has influenced at least three generations of the Chinese people.
《牛虻》在中国有着巨大的影响力和号召力，它影响了至少三代中国人。
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22. In November 2005, Rosenbaum, who enjoys a reputation as a literary gadfly, wrote a column, "Dear Dmitri, Don't burn Laura!" in the New York Observer.
2005年11月，被视作文学界牛蝇的Rosenbaum在纽约观察员报上写了一个专栏，“亲爱的Dmitri请不要烧了Laura ！ ”。
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23. Behind the car came a motley string of figures--street Arabs, beggars, clowns turning somersaults and costermongers hawking their wares. (E. Voynich, The Gadfly , part II, ch. V)
那辆马车后面跟着一大群各色各样的人物——流浪儿、乞丐、一路翻着筋斗的小丑以及叫卖的小贩。
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24. On Tuesday Robertson, the former CEO of MP3.com and general digital music gadfly, read the news that Google (GOOG) was releasing a service that allowed people to upload their music to the cloud.
罗伯逊是MP3.com网站的前任首席执行官，也是数字音乐领域的领军人物。上周二，他从新闻中了解到：谷歌公司（Google）即将发布一项新服务，通过此服务，用户可以向云中上传其音乐。
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25. 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。
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26. 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。
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