谄媚的

A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.

充满野心勃勃、阿谀媚之人庞大、腐败官僚机构，既搞工作也搞麻烦。

Every clause, every punctuation mark, every plot twist, puzzle, and factoid is engineered precisely to flatter our intelligence.

每从句，每点符号，每曲折情节、谜团和花絮都媚读者智商而精心设计。