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单词 curry favour
分类 英汉词典
释义
词典释义:
curry favour
英 [ˈkʌri ˈfeɪvə]
美 [ˈkəri ˈfeɪvər]

讨好;拍马屁

双语例句
  • Politicians are eager to promote their "happy family" image to curry favour with voters.

    政客们积极推广其“幸福家庭”的形象以讨好选民。

  • Is she just trying to curry favour?

    还只是为了获取好感而已?

  • Some staff try to curry favour with their boss.

    有些员工试图巴结老板。

  • The implication is to curry favour, benefits from fish.

    阿谀奉承,其言外之意就是要从中捞取好处。

  • Others curry favour by handing contracts to companies run by former policemen.

    而另一些人则通过和一些由前警员经营的公司签约来拍马屁。

释义

ingratiate oneself with someone through obsequious behaviour

讨好,拍马屁

  • a wimpish attempt to curry favour with the new bosses.

    讨好新上司的懦弱尝试。[ORIGIN alteration of Middle English

  • curry favel, from the name (Favel or Fauvel) of a chestnut horse in a 14th-cent. French romance who became a symbol of cunning and duplicity; hence ‘ to rub down Favel’ meant to use the cunning which he personified].

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