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. 他是一个政治牛虻，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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People who complain a lot or are difficult to please: ingrate, perfectionist, purist...
Types of insect: ant, aphid, bedbug...
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