While she was ordering, the waiter smiled ingratiatingly.

她点菜的时候，侍应生满脸谄媚地笑。

My role is to be sly, obsequious and without scruples. I'm a good actor, My Lord. Huh. Can you free me from this pit?

扮演这个角色的要求就是诡诈, 谄媚和无耻. 我是个好演员, 大人. 哼, 能把我从这地牢救出去吗?

You are addicted to the instant gratification of unearned adulation from a group of perfect strangers you insist on referring to as your " Friends."

沉迷于称为" 好友" 但其实只是陌生人对的谄媚，给带来的本能的满足。

If anyone did step forward and tried to be kind to us, we would have to despise them with the intensity owed to all false flatterers.

如果有人主动对我们示好，我们就不能不鄙夷他们，因为这是所有虚伪谄媚者应得的。

Unctuousness is undoubtedly irritating. But it, too, can sometimes have wider benefits.

谄媚油滑无疑令人恼火，但有时也可能有更大的好处。

The moment the door had closed, Mr. Borgin dropped his oily manner.

门一关，博金先生刻收起了他谄媚的腔调。

Jobs hated both the devices and the obsequiousness.

乔布斯既讨厌他们的产品，又讨厌他们的谄媚。

" Yes, sir, " the cook eagerly interpolated, with appeasing and apologetic servility.

" 是，先生。" 厨工急切地插，带着道歉和劝解的谄媚口气。

Add in an obsequious mainstream media, and it is rather remarkable that so many Barisan Nasional campaigners still felt the need to resort to blatant vote-buying.

再加上主流媒体的谄媚奉承，竟然还有么多国民阵线竞选人员觉得仍有必要采取贿选这种明目张胆的做法，实在是不可。

The fact that America's bestseller lists feature works written by academic authorities amongst the ghost-written memoirs and celebrity suck-up jobs should be cause for rejoicing.

虽如此，同是受雇的知识精英，波斯纳未免有偏激，名家也许是卑俗不堪的，但是至少还有两点说明他们的所作所为还是不无裨益的。首先，他们显然促进了想的传播，使得受过教育的普通人有机会从真正的权威里获取信息，而 (2) 不仅仅是靠平庸记者的捕风捉影，他们也使大学得以回报社会对它们的滋养，由枪手代劳的自传和极尽谄媚之辞的作品遍地都是，而美国畅销书的排行榜更青睐名家们的专著，这一事实也足以让我们欣慰。

They will try to boost the other man's ego, not through genuine, real appreciation, but through flattery and insincerity. And their technique won't work.

他们会让收信人自我膨胀，但不是出于真心实意，而是虚情假意的谄媚。 他们这种伎俩是不可能见效的。

Mark Twain has a similar effect, and we connect him with a smarmy, witty, affectionately curmudgeonly type of writing.

马克·吐温(Mark Twain)的名声也不例外，我们常把这位作家与谄媚、诙谐、亲切、乖戾的写作风格联系在一起。

She surrounded herself with pomp and fawning courtiers, and forbade anyone but herself from wearing pink.

她周围都是浮华和谄媚的朝臣，除了她自己，禁止任何人许穿粉红色的衣服。

Women were a little bit more fawning or useless.

女性则显得有谄媚或无用。

And this flattering idea clearly took root.

这种谄媚的想法显然已经扎根。

It's not pandering when they're this physically attractive.

当他们如此貌美时，这并非谄媚。

There was no demand for a business-pilled bearded sycophant that gets routinely ignored by Trump.

没有人要求一个被特朗普经常忽视的商人派的谄媚者。

Those raucous town halls also picked up by fawning media and portrayed as organic events.

喧嚣的市政厅会同样被谄媚的媒体捕捉，并被描绘成自发性的活动。

And yet Nigel Farage's lies go largely unchallenged by the supine sycophantic media.

然而，奈杰尔·法拉奇的谎言在谄媚顺从的媒体面前却大多未受到质疑。

My beef with Michelin used to be that it's not really just about the food.

我过去对米其林指南的不满在于，它不仅仅关乎食物，更看重的是种谄媚逢迎的态度。