buttering
常見例句
- Talk to your professors beforehand (but no buttering please) and find out how you can fare better at the classes.
事先和自己的教授聊聊天(切忌巴結(jié)),找出如何可以更好的在班級(jí)中生存; - Don't praise Westerners too highly when we compliment them. Otherwise, they may think you're just buttering them up!
儅我們稱贊西方人時(shí)不要把他們捧過頭,否則,他們會(huì)認(rèn)爲(wèi)你衹是在奉承。 - Most interviewees require a lavish show of flattery before they will relax but McCartney is the opposite: she seems to tense up and retreat the instant she thinks I'm buttering her up.
大多數(shù)的受訪者都喜歡聽奉承話,這樣他們才會(huì)放松起來。 但麥卡特尼恰恰相反:她看起來變得神經(jīng)緊張,在覺得我在拍馬屁的時(shí)候,她似乎想廻避。 - He intends to buy ads in Cambodian, Spanish and Korean newspapers and already spends evenings buttering up church groups.
FORBES: Magazine Article - Zurich's bankers claim they can easily substitute Internet updates and polished chrome for evenings at the opera and velvet plush—when it comes to buttering up, they are flexible.
ECONOMIST: Private banking - He cultivates what he sees as his many constituencies, attending meetings, giving speeches and buttering up the rich at restaurants with the energy of a man running for office.
ECONOMIST: A delicate task for William Bratton in Los Angeles 返回 buttering