“your Eminence was always famous for truthfulness,”the Gadfly put in bitterly

“主教大人是一直马诚实出名的。”牛虻挖苦地插进来。

But he served his city in several capacities--as citizen and soldier and as gadfly and philosopher, a role he believed had been aid upon him by God

但他尽各方面的才能为他的城市服务--既是一位好公民、好士兵,又是一位尖锐的社会批评者和深邃的哲学家,他认为这些都是神赋予他的义务。

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。

She'd been there 30 years but was still a gadfly

尽管在那儿干了30多年,她与职工之间依然直来直去,有时也刺儿你一下。

horsefly, gadfly

厩蝇,牛虻

The Gadfly ’s endurance was failing him at last.

牛虻的忍受力也终于不能维持了。

The Gadfly , leaning back against the chair-cushions, looked up with his subtle, chilling, inscrutable smile

牛虻向后靠到椅垫上去,然后抬起头来,带着神秘的、令人不寒而栗的、深不可测的微笑。

||1: He also spoke up for the common man. ||2: Like the first Socrates, he saw himself as a gadfly of the tyrannical, lazy or self-satisfied. ||3: He disliked the way Corinthians was run, with management treating players like children, and organised a system where everyone in the club，from kit-boy to president, would vote about the length of training and the time of lunch. ||4: Hoping, no doubt, for greater laxity about parties and smoking and beer, all of which he found essential to his own free-ranging game. (“I am an anti-athlete,” he explained. “You have to take me as I am.”)

||1:他也为普通民众直言不讳。||2:同哲学家苏格拉底一样，他爱批评那些暴虐、懒惰或自鸣得意之人。||3:他讨厌科林蒂安斯的运作方式，其管理方式对待运动员如同对待儿童一般。苏格拉底筹划了一种制度，其中，下至球童上至俱乐部主席的所有人都会对训练时长及午餐时间进行投票。||4:毫无疑问，此举是希望获得对于聚会、吸烟以及饮酒更为宽松的规定，因为他发现聚会、抽烟以及饮酒所有这些对于他放任自由的运动至关重要。（“我是个反运动员者，”他解释道。“你必须把我看做一个反运动员者。”）

A gadfly in boots

穿着球靴的牛虻

Detractors see him differently: as a dangerous anti-American gadfly , indiscriminately revealing information regardless of the consequences.

批评者则看法不同，他们认为他是一个危险的反美鼓吹者，不计后果、不加甄别地泄露信息。

At first only one newspaper, Hankyoreh, regarded as a provocative gadfly , dared print them.

一开始仅有一家报纸，Hankyoreh，它被认为是一只挑衅的牛虻，敢于刊登这些指控。

A previously obscure computer geek-turned-gadfly called Julian Assange turned the worlds of diplomacy and journalism upside down.

朱利安•阿桑奇（JulianAssange），这个此前默默无名、从计算机奇客（geek）转变而来的牛虻，将外交界与新闻行业搅了个天翻地覆。

The Gadfly

牛氓

gadfly petrel

虻圆尾鹱

green head;deerfly;ox gadfly;gadfies;horse fly

牛虻

a wet smack;bother;rat;nuisance;perisher;blighter;gadfly

讨厌的人