buttering
常见例句
- 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(切忌巴结),找出如何可以更好的在班级中生存; - Don't praise Westerners too highly when we compliment them. Otherwise, they may think you're just buttering them up!
当我们称赞西方人时不要把他们捧过头,否则,他们会认为你只是在奉承。 - 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.
大多数的受访者都喜欢听奉承话,这样他们才会放松起来。 但麦卡特尼恰恰相反:她看起来变得神经紧张,在觉得我在拍马屁的时候,她似乎想回避。 - 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