flattery

1 A little flattery will fetch him.

稍一奉承他就软化了.

2 Flattery has turned his head.

奉承已使他头脑发昏.

3 Cut out the banana oil ; flattery will get you nowhere!

别花言巧语了, 吹捧 是不会使你捞到好处的!

4 Don't be afraid to use flattery to get what you want.

别怕用奉承的话来获得你想要的东西。

5 She was pleased by the flattery.

她听了这些奉承话而得意起来.

6 Though the entertainers are sometimes called kings, they are really courtiers, devoted to a highly specific form of flattery.

7 The host had a few questions he tried to hit, and he got there, but they were largely softballs; the order of the day was not incision but flattery.

8 Another day I praised her needlework, thinking that flattery would soften her.

9 The issue of street harassment has received wide attention recently, with men and women often disagreeing on what constitutes harassment versus harmless flattery in a public space.

10 I was really pleased when he said how well I'd done, because he isn't known for flattery.

听他说我做得这么好时,我很高兴, 因为他不是擅长恭维的人.

11 It seems that his flattery won't work this time.

看来他的阿谀奉承这次不能奏效了。

12 To Claudius and Gertrude, she offers fennel and columbines, which are said to symbolize flattery and infidelity, as well as the bitter herb rue, an abortifacient that signifies either repentance or disdain.

13 Billy's flattery coupled with her husband Ted's inability to be anyone but Ted really made this read the perfect prelude to this suggestive encounter.

14 Even surveillance brings with it the un­conscious flattery of being monitored.

15 Whether you find them attractive or not doesn't affect the fact of the flattery.

16 Makela has a broad imagination for sound, but he applies with it such lavish flattery for details that the results can be a little too impulsive, although never vain.

17 He used flattery: “I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but this is certainly as good a company as we’ve ever had.”

18 And yet, this is the ultimate form of respect to players such as James – imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.

19 E. Jean’s advice, though, centered on obsequious flattery: “Which ‘previous lovers’?” she suggested the wife respond.

20 Where they offer honesty, he prefers flattery and agreeableness.

1 阿谀

sugary supple subservient adulation taffy eyewash blandishment sugarplum flatter cringe inveigle toady curry favor with get on good side soft solder soft sawder flattering honeyed

2 巴结

tufthunting gnathonic silky slimy fawning ingratiatory morigeration ingratiation bootlicking creep cringe fawn shine up to make points with supple saccharine bag-play butter incense crawl bootlick fish phrase ingratiate apple polishing obsequious obsequence wriggle buddy penny-dog sweeten cotton up curry below the knee suck up to

3 讨好

flattering slimy court flatter sweeten fawn ingratiate smoodge pay court to dance attendance on curry favour with curry favour make up to

4 谄媚

toadyish flattering buttery courtly obsequious insinuating adulatory insinuatingly blandishments butter incense adulation blandishment blarney bootlicking sawder toadyism brownnoser sugariness cringe toady truckle smarm bootlick beslaver flatter blandish soft-soap adulate soft soap soft sawder spaniel taffy smooth sugary candied servile honeyed oleaginous flannel eyewash creep fawn kowtow court soap honey brownnose curry favor with suck up to shine up to lick boots greasy soapy slimy smarmy fulsome crawl sycophant sycophantic sycophantish slime slaver sycophancy gloze lackey toadeating gnathonic kiss-ass ingratiating bum-sucker bumsucking back-scratch crouch soft-sawder lay on the butter

5 美化

transfiguration pretty ornament flatter glorify beautify transfigure glamorize aestheticize

6 恭维

compliment make a compliment to pay a compliment to lay it on with a trowel fine fair complimentary bouquet slaver smarm flatter palaver fawning adulation fawn on fawn over sweeten fawn flattering stroke phrase soft complemental sawder incense jolly applesauce sweet-talk soap

7 奉承话

blandishment blarney

8 奉承

smarmy ingratiating adulation flatter fawn toady flattering flatteringly blandishment butter up fair oily courtly saccharine obsequious oleaginous saponaceous lipsalve court butter courtship slaver smarm massage soothe lackey blandish adulate flannel palaver blarney suck up fawning soft-soap ingratiate yourself curry favour massage ego fawn on fawn over suck up to make up to unction dance attendance on curry favour with blandishments stroke gnathonic kiss-ass smooth buttery parasitic soft-spoken insinuative sawder bum-sucker bumsucking grease incense creeping salve sooth taffy greasing buttering gloze bootlick suck crawl crouch penny-dog soft-sawder soap jolly caress make fair weather

9 自欺欺人

self-deceive

10 恭维话

oil compliment drip comp bouquet orchid smooth things