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单词 gadfly
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gad·fly

noun
/ˈɡædflaɪ/
/ˈɡædflaɪ/
(plural gadflies)
(usually disapproving)
  1. a person who annoys or criticizes other people in order to make them do something(为使别人做某事而对其进行骚扰或批评的)讨人厌者
    • He was a political gadfly, turning up at city council meetings and complaining about the waste of taxpayers’ money.他是一只政治牛虻,出现在市议会会议上,抱怨浪费纳税人的钱。
    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from gad, or obsolete gad ‘goad, spike’, from Old Norse gaddr, of Germanic origin; related to yard, the unit of measurement.
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