sycophant
sycophant 英 [ˈsɪkəfænt] 美 [ˈsɪkəfənt, ˈsaɪkə-]
n. 谄媚者；奉承者 adj. 奉承的；拍马的
名词复数:sycophants
- A sycophant is a person who tries to win favor from wealthy or influential people by flattering them. Also known as brown-nosers, teacher's pets or suck-ups.
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- n. 谄媚者；奉承者
- adj. 奉承的；拍马的
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1. Mr Mugabe, sycophant-surrounded and with his own foreign-currency wallet, is short of neither bread nor baubles, and may do the same.
佞人环绕且有海外存款的穆加贝衣食无忧、怡然自得，他很可能做出同样的事来。
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2. At the time I was told this I had no idea why a butterfly might be called a butterflyand so I kept my mouth shut (like a sniveling sycophant).
我听到这些话的时候，并不知道蝴蝶为什么叫做蝴蝶。 所以我保持沉默（就像个哭哭啼啼的马屁精）。
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3. Every A-list sycophant in American used to show up there in the early 1990s, back when it wasn't embarrassing to admit that you were a friend of Bill Clinton.
美国所有在A级名单里的马屁虫都在上世纪90年代去过那里，等到能够光明正大地承认自己是克林顿的朋友的时候就返回来。
- sycophant (n.) 1530s (in Latin form sycophanta), "informer, talebearer, slanderer," from Middle French sycophante and directly from Latin sycophanta, from Greek sykophantes "false accuser, slanderer," literally "one who shows the fig," from sykon "fig" (see fig) + phainein "to show" (from PIE root *bha- (1) "to shine").
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