gadfly

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It still remains to be seen whether Buchanan will be just a gadfly or a real threat to the president.
布坎南只是故意攪局還是對總統(tǒng)構成真正的威脅，這還有待觀察。
Gemma thought Gadfly was Arthur, but she could not make sure.
瓊瑪雖感到牛虻是亞瑟, 卻不能確定.
Maybe Arthur had been a truly gadfly, flying happily in the sky.
或許,亞瑟真的變成了一直牛虻, 自由快樂地在天空中飛翔.
It still remains to be seen whether Buchanan will be just a gadfly or a real threat to the president.
布坎南只是故意攪局還是對總統(tǒng)構成真正的威脅，這還有待觀察。
She'd been there 30 years but was still a gadfly. I loved that.
盡管在那兒干了30多年,她與職工之間依然直來直去, 有時也刺兒你一下,我就喜歡她的那種性格.

If you refer to someone as a gadfly, you believe that they deliberately annoy or challenge other people, especially people in authority.