sycophant
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 [?s?k?f?nt]
- 美式音標 [?s?k?f?nt, ?sa?k?-]
- 國際音標 ['sik?f?nt, -f?nt]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n. 諂媚者;奉承者
- adj. 奉承的;拍馬的
詞根記憶
- syco(無花果) + phan(顯現(xiàn)) + t→獻上無花果→馬屁精
- syco + phant(看作elephant,大象)→硬說人腿壯如象腿→拍馬屁的人,諂媚者
英漢例句
- No, the answer is not to play sycophant and brown-nose.
不,答案肯定不是拍馬屁或者奉承。 - Mr Mugabe, sycophant-surrounded and with his own foreign-currency wallet, is short of neither bread nor baubles, and may do the same.
佞人環(huán)繞且有海外存款的穆加貝衣食無憂、怡然自得,他很可能做出同樣的事來。 - At the time I was told this I had no idea why a butterfly might be called a butterflyand so I kept my mouth shut (like a sniveling sycophant).
我聽到這些話的時候,竝不知道蝴蝶爲什麼叫做蝴蝶。 所以我保持沉默(就像個哭哭啼啼的馬屁精)。 - They do that with the de facto backing of their sycophant constituent governments.
FORBES: The ECB Gave Cyprus Its Gun To Play Russian Roulette - Careful examination of the facts show that those whom are truly unable to obtain healthcare coverage are not nearly the many millions quoted by the sycophant media.
FORBES: The GOP Solution To Health Coverage For Pre-Existing Medical Conditions - Accentuating the parental role as sycophant is the insane amount of money many spend on training, equipment and travel teams in search of that Holy Scholarship.
FORBES: What 'Outside the Lines' Missed About 'Entitled' Young Athletes
雙語例句
權威例句
詞組短語
- a sycophant 奴才
- crafty sycophant 奸佞
- servile sycophant 指善於迅速改變自己立場或觀點的人
- the sycophant clique 恩幸集團
- Mary is a sycophant 瑪麗是個馬屁精
短語
專業(yè)釋義
- 拍馬的