sycophant

On culture, he impulsed the development imperial examination and was strict with the abilities and morals of the talents avoiding the interfusion of crafty sycophants to bureaucracy when he chose scholars as officials and awarded officers.

文化上，推动科举的发展，但在取士授官上，严把才德关，防止奸佞之人混入官僚队伍，所以对那些诬告他人的奸人酷吏，进行严厉的惩罚和贬黜。

A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant. in an unctuous voice

谄媚者出于私利而吹捧或尊敬他人的人；拍马者用谄媚[柔媚]的声音

No, the answer is not to play sycophant and brown-nose.

不，答案肯定不是拍马屁或者奉承。

The office is a menagerie of egotists and sycophants.

该办公室乃是自私者与谄媚者汇集之处.

...a dictator surrounded by sycophants, frightened to tell him what he may not like.

被一群不敢谏言的佞臣簇拥的独裁者

But I'll be damned if I'll be blocked by some sycophant in the White House.

但我可能被那些白宫里的马屁精所诅咒.

After all, nobody likes a sycophant.

毕竟，没有人喜欢阿谀奉承。

I think it as honorable to the government neither to know nor notice its sycophants or censors, as it would be undignified and criminal to pamper the former and persecute the latter.

我认为，得体的政府，不应该把它的赞扬者和审查者放在心上，如果对于前者大加褒扬而对后者横加迫害，不仅有失尊严，同时也是在犯罪。

This is a modern form of'changes from guest to host', I wonder whether those sycophant and bootlicking government officials realize this.

这是一种现代反客为主术，不知那些宠幸拍马逢迎者的官员们是否想到了这一层。

A sycophant flatterer is neither a guru or a preacher.

一个谄媚者既非古茹也不是传教士.

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。

a dictator surrounded by sycophants

被阿谀奉承者包围的独裁者

So how do we take that and turn it around? How do we create a unique value that our bosses are willing to pay for? No, the answer is not to play sycophant and brown-nose.

所以我们该怎么对待这种情况，怎么扭转局面呢？我们该怎么创造能让我们老板心甘情愿付工资的特殊才能呢？不，答案肯定不是拍马屁或者奉承。

US President George W.Bush has shown the dangers of excessive secrecy and confining decision-making to a narrow circle of sycophants.

美国总统乔治W布什暗箱操作，把决策权交给一小部分拍马逢迎之徒的做法，已彰显其害。

I have certainly encountered numerous Korean students living abroad who believe it and blame Chinese chroniclers and their Korean sycophants for distorting the true Korean history.

我就遇到无数的住在国外的韩国学生相信这种观点。这些韩国学生指责中国历史学家和韩奸们歪曲了真正韩国的历史。

Ed Garden, the chief investment officer of Peltz's Trian Fund management, says Pepsi's CEO Indra Nooyi has mismanaged the company and had built a "culture of sycophants."

佩尔茨旗下的Trian基金管理公司首席投资官艾德·嘉登表示，百事CEO卢英德对公司管理不善，还在公司营造了一种“阿谀奉承的企业文化”。

Bestowing favor on a dubious sycophant often lead to the downfall of dynasties.

宠用奸佞是历代王朝亡国的重要原因.

She was all over him at the office party. what a sycophant!

办公室聚会的时候,他对她大鲜殷勤, 好个马屁精!

He expects sycophant devotion from his staff.

他希望自己的员工一心一意效忠于他。

Bestowing favor on a dubious sycophant often leads to the downfall of dynasties.

宠用奸佞是历代王朝亡国的重要原因。

Mr Karzai must appoint competent ministers and replace the sycophants in his palace;

他必须要任命有能力的人担任部长，还要在他的宫殿里替换掉那些马屁精；

a sycophantic review

献媚奉承的评论

He's a coward, a traitor, and a sycophant.

他是胆小鬼、叛徒和马屁精。

Maggie: Carol, would you please tell me what a sycophant is.

麦琪：卡罗尔，献媚这个词是什么意思？

Ross: All right, so I don't know what sycophant means, but the rest is right.

那我不知道“拍马屁”的意思，但余下的是对的。