| 词汇 | example_english_gadfly |
| 释义 | Examples of gadflyThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Will the institutions bioethicists inhabit and their sources of funding reshape their role from intellectual gadfly to commercial booster? Should we not rather thank them for trying to be gadflies in the consciences of us older folk? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She spoke of charities as gadflies and as pioneering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Scientists are rather like gadflies in this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Largely according to species, they also are known variously as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Often politicians and social gadflies will become involved in order to use the media attention surrounding the case to promote their own agendas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The losses caused by the gadfly are quite large, and occur chiefly with the hides. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One would hope to find groups of people who will sometimes have to act as a gadfly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will make the most of it and will provide that necessary competitive element, that sort of gadfly, which will be so very important. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The prince went after the horse, but a gadfly stung it, and it touched the walls. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The exceptions are the huge albatrosses, several of the gadfly petrels and shearwaters and the fulmar-petrels. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The diving petrels are a clade, but within a larger clade of true petrels that also contains the gadfly petrels. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. All albatrosses, procellarids (gadfly petrels and shearwaters) and storm petrels use the oil. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Selene sends a gadfly to sting the bull. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Dipping down from flight is most commonly used by the gadfly petrels and the storm petrels. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In fact is a fine little gadfly, representing an enormous effort for one man and his wife. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He began a career as a corporate gadfly and constantly badgered stockholders with questions about the racial biases present in their hiring practices. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Finding the regime unsympathetic to his ideas, he adopted the role of intellectual gadfly. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In political retirement he was a radio show host, author, and political gadfly. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Gadfly petrels often feed on the wing, snapping prey without landing on the water. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Gadfly will not allow a start up the same connection twice, however. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The absence of skuas, gulls and other predatory birds on tropical islands is why some shearwaters and two species of gadfly petrel can nest in the open. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The actual implementation in gadfly is much better than the intuitive reading, particularly at steps 1 and 2 (which are combined via optimizing transformations and hash join algorithms). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Among the surface feeders some, principally the gadfly petrels, can obtain food by dipping from flight, while most of the rest feed while sitting on the water. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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