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 gadfly ['gædflai]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 形似苍蝇, 牛虻, 讨厌的人

[医] 虻


  1. 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。
  2. 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
[ noun ]
  1. a persistently annoying person

  2. <noun.person>
  3. any of various large flies that annoy livestock

  4. <noun.animal>


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}.]

  1. "In my opinion, the most powerful weapon a person can have is spitting," Hirschfeld, a wealthy former New York political gadfly, said at a news conference. "You have to defend yourself.
  2. Some call him a gadfly.
  3. 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.
  4. Lafontaine is known for making bold and brash political statments and delighted in his role as a political gadfly.
  5. Boris N. Yeltsin, the gadfly in Mikhail Gorbachev's ointment, arrived Saturday for his first visit to the United States _ a two-week national tour featuring the Soviet political maverick's views on glasnost and government.
  6. However, Communist Party gadfly Boris N. Yeltsin and other progressive Soviet lawmakers did attend, he said.
  7. 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.
  8. Krier also is a bit of a gadfly.
  9. Considered as a series of gadfly attacks on some equally preposterous features of existing society, however, they sometimes strike home.
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