0 someone who is always annoying or criticizing other people -- 讨厌的人；有意让别人不得安宁的人
1 a fly that bites horses and cows -- 虻
The losses caused by the gadfly are quite large, and occur chiefly with the hides.
The prince went after the horse, but a gadfly stung it, and it touched the walls.
He is setting himself up, as he said a week ago in a speech which was virtually the same as that today, as a political gadfly.
Will the institutions bioethicists inhabit and their sources of funding reshape their role from intellectual gadfly to commercial booster?
Now they are likely to disappear and you are going to put on the water a sort of little gadfly, a 75-foot motor boat.
One would hope to find groups of people who will sometimes have to act as a gadfly.
The exceptions are the huge albatrosses, several of the gadfly petrels and shearwaters and the fulmar-petrels.
In fact is a fine little gadfly, representing an enormous effort for one man and his wife.
