She sent a gadfly to torment Io, who, in her flight, swam through the sea, named after her, Ionian. 她派遣了一只牛虻去折磨伊俄。伊俄四处躲藏,游过了大海,这海从些就以她命名叫伊奥尼亚海。
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly is coming against her from the north. 20 埃及是肥美的母牛犊。但出于北方的毁灭(灭或作牛虻)到了。来到了。
gadfly
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a persistently annoying person
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any of various large flies that annoy livestock
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Gadfly \Gad"fly`\ (g[a^]d"fl[imac]`), n.; pl. {Gadflies}. [Gad + fly.] (Zo["o]l.) Any dipterous insect of the genus {Oestrus}, and allied genera of botflies.
Note: The sheep gadfly ({Oestrus ovis}) deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larv[ae] develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle ({Hypoderma bovis}) deposits its eggs upon or in the skin where the larv[ae] or bots live and produce sores called wormels. The gadflies of the horse produce the intestinal parasites called bots. See {Botfly}, and {Bots}. The true horseflies are often erroneously called gadflies, and the true gadflies are sometimes incorrectly called {breeze flies}.
{Gadfly petrel} (Zo["o]l.), one of several small petrels of the genus {Oestrelata}.
Breeze \Breeze\, Breeze fly \Breeze" fly`\, n. [OE. brese, AS. bri['o]sa; perh. akin to OHG. brimissa, G. breme, bremse, D. brems, which are akin to G. brummen to growl, buzz, grumble, L. fremere to murmur; cf. G. brausen, Sw. brusa, Dan. bruse, to roar, rush.] (Zo["o]l.) A fly of various species, of the family {Tabanid[ae]}, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also {horsefly}, and {gadfly}. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also {breese} and {brize}.]
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Some call him a gadfly.
John F. Banzhaf III, a law professor at George Washington University and a legal gadfly who has pressed a number of high-profile cases in Washington, helped prepare it.
Lafontaine is known for making bold and brash political statments and delighted in his role as a political gadfly.
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However, Communist Party gadfly Boris N. Yeltsin and other progressive Soviet lawmakers did attend, he said.
Maybe after this week's incredible round in federal court, more people may decide that Jeremy Rifkin isn't such a playful "gadfly" after all.
Krier also is a bit of a gadfly.
Considered as a series of gadfly attacks on some equally preposterous features of existing society, however, they sometimes strike home.