sycophants

a dictator surrounded by sycophants

被阿谀奉承者包围的独裁者

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。

...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

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。

During his life Confucius loathed spineless, fawning sycophants, but he particularly phony gentlemen who appeared respectable.

孔子一生不耻没气节或巧言令色的小人, 但他尤其最痛恶与貌似恭谨的伪君子为伍.

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；

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。

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。

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.

They even praise such a disappointing program, they really are sycophants.

这么差劲的节目也有人夸赞, 真是捧臭脚!

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”。