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Перевод: gadfly

[существительное]
овод ; слепень ; придирчивый человек; надоедливый человек

Тезаурус:

1. The entire vast enterprise lurched into uneasy motion at last, in the first days of September, in the strange, ominous hush of the end of that disastrous summer, while France sat mute and made no sign, and the Scots, for all their gadfly raids, seemed to hold off from testing the defences of the north.
2. His early education was mainly private; he went to King's College, Cambridge, in 1888 to read history, but, apart from writing for the Gadfly and Granta , his academic career was undistinguished.
3. ZEUS was, however, unimpressed by Bellerophon's temerity and sent a gadfly to sting Pegasus on the rump.
4. Industry gadfly Judith Hurwitz in her new vehicle ToolWatch predicts "NT will stumble."
5. Howard's influence as a kind of unofficial gadfly and inspector of prisons was significant; his parliamentary and legislative contribution more so, although in retrospect there seem to have been missed opportunities and errors.
6. Gadfly knew George Reynolds when he had nowt, or nowt (at any rate) to which he'd care to admit.
7. Which had not included Rory, the gadfly son.
8. The label's "Shostakovich Film Festival" ( ) is music from The Gadfly, Five Days and Five Nights, Hamlet - and, more dubiously, the Tahiti Trot (which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it - there's no evidence he ever saw the son, better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be), and the First Piano Concerto (some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933!).
9. The red and white helicopter rattled into sight over the top of the trees and hovered, a noisy gadfly, above the terraces.
10. The "Romance" from The Gadfly became, of course, a popular favourite a few years ago when it was used as the theme for the TV series Reilly: Ace of Spies , but as played here by the Chicago Sinfonietta under Paul Freeman it's altogether drier ad more reticent - no comparison at all with the recording by the USSR Cinema SO under Emin Khachaturian on CfP which glows with warmth and stylish authenticity.
11. The line of a jaw, the curve of a breast, the way the hair falls just so: as well as this potent mix of stored physical ideals - what Simonde de Beauvoir called "incandescence" - you are, like it or not, influenced by fundamental programming which dictates that, while the "higher" processes of your mind dicker around in a gadfly twentiethcentury way, the areas of the brain that control instinctive behaviour are looking for a mate, a woman of energy and physical alertness: a good breeder.
12. Oskar Lafontaine, the gadfly premier of Saarland, was buried by Chancellor Kohl's unity-landslide in 1990.
13. Thom could safely be publicly discounted as an eccentric (he was indeed something of an eccentric in many of his personal habits) and a generally irrelevant gadfly, but it was rather more difficult to depict Hawkins's computer in the same light.