You could argue he done it to curry favor with the guards.

你可说 他想拍狱方马屁。

I have never seen such an obvious attempt to curry my favor.

我从未见过如此明显的讨我的企图。

You thought you'd help me curry favor with my outer borough hall mates.

你认为你要帮我拍我那些郊区同学的马屁。

Even though he curried favor with his teachers, he couldn't pass the final exam.

虽然他拍老师的马屁，他没有通过期未考试。

Many curry favor with a ruler, and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.

施散的，有多人求他的恩情；爱送礼的，人都为他的朋友。

What business has an old county man to come currying favor with a low set of dark-blue freemen?

一个县里的老男人要讨一群贱的深蓝色自由人有什么用？

Nick was a featherhead to curry favor with a fathomless man, his father-in-law of the future.

尼克真是个蠢人，要拍他未来的岳父一个深不可测的人的马屁。

" To curry your lord father's favor, I don't doubt. I know how that game is played. How old is this wretched girl child" ?

" 毫无疑问，是为了讨你父亲。这毛头小妮子今年几岁？"

You could argue he'd done it to curry favor with the guards. Or maybe make a few friends among us cons.

你可以认为他这么做是为了讨守卫，或者想跟我们这些人交朋友。

It was of course the ancient response of the mendicant, through whom the charitable curry favor in the sight of the gods, but the man had something more.

这当然是乞丐的古老反应，通过他的慈善在众神面前讨，但这个人还有更多的东西。

Other people would say so, and would allege that he was currying favor with Bulstrode for the sake of making himself important and getting on in the world.

其他人会这样说， 并声称他是为了让自己变得重要并在世界上取得成功而讨布尔斯特罗德。

Ptolemy was trying to curry favor with Caesar by killing his enemy, but Caesar was mad in that the-only-person-who-gets-to-tease-my-little-brother-is-me kind of way, except with murder instead of teasing.

托勒密试图通过杀死他的敌人来讨凯撒，但凯撒很生气， 因为唯一能取笑我弟弟的人就是我， 除了谋杀外戏弄的。

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord.

你们作仆人的，要凡事听从你们肉身的主人，不要只在眼前侍奉，像是讨人喜欢的，总要存心诚实敬畏主。

Lew Cheney, becoming convinced of the ultimate failure of his project, in order to curry favor with his master, and avoid the consequences which he foresaw would follow, deliberately determined to sacrifice all his companions.

卢切尼确信他的计划最终会失败，为了讨他的主人， 避免他预见到的后果， 故意牺牲他所有的同伴。