When power bowed to flattery, honor was bound to plainness.

当权屈服于阿谀奉承时，荣誉必然屈服于平庸。

He brought this really smarmy guy with him.

他带来了个非常阿谀奉承的家伙。

A flatterer's would not, though they do appear As huge as high Olympus.

布鲁图，在个阿谀奉承的人眼里，即使有像奥林匹斯山样高耸庞大的过错，也会视而不见的。

Some readers are saying right now as they read these lines: " Oh, phooey! Flattery! Bear oil! I've tried that stuff. It doesn't work — not with intelligent people" .

" 得了吧！ 别吹了！ 我试过阿谀奉承那玩意儿， 不管用。知识分子不吃这。"

Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain.

任何人都会阿谀奉承，取悦别人，然而真正的朋友才总是说逆耳的话，而且不怕给人找苦头吃。

Trump's supporters accused Harris of pandering, in other words, changing her policy positions to get votes.

特朗普的支持者指责哈里斯阿谀奉承，换句话说，为了获得选票而改变自己的政策立场。

It's just that he's surrounded by yes men who tell him what he wants to hear.

那只是因为他周围的人都是唯他马首是瞻的阿谀奉承之辈。

In his splenetic new book, Mr Milbank dates the " crack-up" of the Republican Party to various " destructionists" and—to appropriate the author's trademark style—their depravity, deplorability, mendacity, moral turpitude, rapacity and sycophancy.

在米尔班克的新书中，他愤怒地指出共和党的“分崩离析”是由各种“破坏者”造成的——借用作者的标志性风格来说，就是他们的堕落、可憎、不诚实、道德败坏、贪婪和阿谀奉承。

That was critical of Trump and the billionaires who fawn over them.

那是对特朗普及其身边阿谀奉承的亿万富翁们的严厉批评。

Let's start with the boss's favourite, one who fawningly flatters at all times.

让我们从老板的最爱开始，个总是阿谀奉承的人。

" Mr Rudy Kurniawan is a vinous genius, " one fawned.

“鲁迪·库尼亚万先生是位葡萄酒天才，”位阿谀奉承者说道。

A weirdly sycophantic name, but that is quite common in this period.

个怪异的阿谀奉承式的名字，但在这时期相当常见。

The Greeks start bowing and scraping in a toady-like fashion.

希腊人开始像马屁精样阿谀奉承。

If John McCain was around, he wouldn't be sucking up to Trump.

如果约翰·麦凯恩还在世，他绝不会对特朗普阿谀奉承。

With everything you do to suck up to him on a daily basis.

对你每天对他阿谀奉承的切行为。

And the Prime Minister returned to the flattery.

总理又回到了阿谀奉承的老路上。

" I'm as skeert of a toady-frog as of a snake, " she said.

“我既像蛇， 又像阿谀奉承的青蛙， ” 她说。

The smuggler said " Oh" in an obsequious voice.

走私犯阿谀奉承地“哦” 了声。

And because I'm always interested  in the tech angle let me nerd out for a sec: The detection tools that we have now deserve the same  kind of awe and like fawning headlines that we give our new cancer treatments.

因为我总是对技术角度感兴趣，所以让我思考下：我们现在拥有的检测工具值得我们给予新的癌症治疗方法同样的敬畏和阿谀奉承的头条新闻。

Virtue likewise can only be acquired by the discharge of relative duties; but the importance of these sacred duties will scarcely be felt by the being who is cajoled out of his humanity by the flattery of sycophants.

同样，美德只能通过履行相关职责来获得；但是那些被阿谀奉承从人性中哄出来的人，几乎不会感觉到这些神圣职责的重要性。