gadfly
gadfly 英 [ˈgædflaɪ] 美 [ˈɡædˌflaɪ]
n. [昆] 牛虻；讨厌的人
名词复数:gadflies
- A gadfly is an irritating person, a nuisance who will often ask too many questions or lob lots of criticisms in order to get his or her way.
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- n. [昆] 牛虻；讨厌的人
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1. Even Evelyn Davis, the corporate gadfly who calls herself “Queen of the Corporate Jungle, ” defended Mr. Lewis.
即使自称为“企业丛林女王”的讨厌虫-伊夫林戴维斯都在为刘易斯辩护。
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2. 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。
- 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.).
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