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单词 gadfly
释义
gadfly
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɡæd.flaɪ/us
/ˈɡæd.flaɪ/

gadflynoun[C](ANNOYING PERSON)

someone who is alwaysannoyingorcriticizingotherpeople:
讨厌的人；有意让别人不得安宁的人
They have beenaccusedof being apartyofcranksandpoliticalgadflies.他们被斥为一群怪人和政治讨厌鬼。
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gadflynoun[C](INSECT)

aflythatbiteshorsesandcows
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(Definition ofgadflyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgadfly

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Will the institutions bioethicists inhabit and their sources of funding reshape their role from intellectualgadflyto commercial booster?
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Should we not rather thank them for trying to be gadflies in the consciences of us older folk?
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She spoke of charities as gadflies and as pioneering.
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Scientists are rather like gadflies in this matter.
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Largely according to species, they also are known variously as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies.
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Often politicians and social gadflies will become involved in order to use the media attention surrounding the case to promote their own agendas.
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The losses caused by thegadflyare quite large, and occur chiefly with the hides.
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One would hope to find groups of people who will sometimes have to act as agadfly.
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They will make the most of it and will provide that necessary competitive element, that sort ofgadfly, which will be so very important.
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Now they are likely to disappear and you are going to put on the water a sort of littlegadfly, a 75-foot motor boat.
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He is setting himself up, as he said a week ago in a speech which was virtually the same as that today, as a politicalgadfly.
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The prince went after the horse, but agadflystung it, and it touched the walls.
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The exceptions are the huge albatrosses, several of thegadflypetrels and shearwaters and the fulmar-petrels.
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The diving petrels are a clade, but within a larger clade of true petrels that also contains thegadflypetrels.
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All albatrosses, procellarids (gadflypetrels and shearwaters) and storm petrels use the oil.
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