恭维

I hate his smarmy compliments.

我痛恨他拍马屁的恭维.

Angling for compliments is one of his weaknesses.

爱听恭维话是他的毛病之一.

You are so full of compliments today that you must have kissed the Blarney stone.

你今天满口都是恭维话,一定是吻过“巧言石”了.

Don't lay it on too thick, but make sure they are flattered.

不要吹捧得太露骨，不过一定要恭维得他们很惬意。

I have yet to be bored by someone paying me a compliment.

人家恭维我,我还没觉得厌烦过.

In Chinese data, negotiator likes to employ pattern "Subject+ Copula+ Subject Complement" to make the compliment. In English data, pattern "Subject+ Predicate+ Object" has frequently employed.

从中文的案例来看，恭维常常采用主语+系词+主语补足语的句式来表达，英文案例中的恭维常常以主语+谓语+宾语的形式出现。

He flattered her about her cooking.

他恭维她烹调手艺高超.

She hated the flummery of public relations.

她讨厌公关工作中的虚夸恭维。

"Well done, Cassandra," Crook said. She blushed, but accepted the compliment with good grace.

“干得好，卡桑德拉。”克鲁克说。她脸一下子红了，但还是很有风度地接受了恭维。

You flatter me immensely!

你太恭维我了!

And that a few deferential protestations would take the edge from her displeasure.

只要对她说上几句恭维话,她心中的恼怒就会烟消云散.

She is not overgenerous with praise.

她不说过头的恭维话。

CC shows more ritualized and rhetorical phrases related to Chinese culture, whereas AC remains in the range of limited adjectives and verbs.

中国恭维语使用更多与中国文化背景相关的习惯用语及修辞手法，而美国恭维语主要集中在有限的形容词和动词的选择上。

He's highly susceptible to flattery.

他爱听恭维话。

They embarrassed her by complimenting her on her beauty.

他们恭维她的美貌使她很不好意思.

Indeed, no eulogy could be more grandiloquent than this.

真是恭维备至.

There was all the usual humbug and obligatory compliments from ministers.

全都是些部长们常说的骗人鬼话和少不了的奉承恭维。

I am going to consider them, those provincial aristocrats.

我要去恭维他们, 恭维那些乡下贵族.

Adulation ever follows the ambitious, for such alone receive most pleasure from flattery.

大凡一个很出色的人,自然就有许多人恭维他, 这种人惟有受恭维巴结才快活.

He can turn pretty compliments.

他会说动听的恭维话.

Her advice includes perfectly true but rather fulsome pearls of wisdom.

她的建议中有完全正确的金玉良言，但有过于恭维之嫌。

The minister is averse to / from flattery.

部长不喜欢听恭维话.

A big-picture man , one participant called him. For anthropologists, the words are not necessarily a compliment.

一位与会学者这么形容他. 此语对人类学者不见得是恭维.

Men are often reached by flattery.

人常常因受到恭维而动心.

He is ambitious and susceptible to flattery.

他雄心勃勃，而且很喜欢听别人的恭维话。

Attempts to flatter your interviewer will most likely fall short-especially in relation to appearance or material possessions.

试图恭维你的面试官一般都会适得其反——特别是当你恭维的是他们的外表或者物质财富的时候。

Each had appraised the other.

他们彼此互相恭维.

I wish you'd stop trying to butter me up.

我希望你不要再恭维我了.

It was a backhanded compliment.

这是一句貌似恭维实为挖苦的反话.

He addressed her with high compliment.

他以非常恭维的话向她献殷勤.