sycophancy

基本解釋

Of course, it all has to be done well; sycophancy and flat jokes do not weave the same spell.
當然，這里面必須講求技巧。一味溜須拍馬，開一些干巴巴的玩笑，不會產生同樣的魔力。
The problem with sycophancy isn’t so much that it’s offensive to watch, but that it’s a lousy business strategy.
拍馬屁做法的錯誤之處并不在看起來有多么愚蠢，而是它本身是一個糟糕的商業(yè)策略。
The fashion business is, after all, a part of the entertainment industry, where sycophancy, exaggeration and gushing insincerity are not unknown.
畢竟，時裝業(yè)是娛樂業(yè)的一個組成部分，而在娛樂界，阿諛奉承，夸大其詞和虛偽做作并非罕見。

Sycophancy is said to be the party's reigning passion, diktat its chief means of making decisions.
ECONOMIST: India
It is a channel whose evening news bulletins exude pro-government sycophancy.
ECONOMIST: Italy
Partly because the press feels guilty at the moment: aware that it hounded John Major and his government, ashamed of its initial sycophancy towards Mr Blair.
ECONOMIST: The hounding of Geoffrey Robinson