No, the answer is not to play sycophant and brown-nose.
不,答案肯定不是拍马屁或者奉承。
A sycophant flatterer is neither a guru or a preacher.
一个谄媚者既非古茹也不是传教士。
A sycophant (flatterer) is neither a guru or a preacher.
一个谄媚者既非古茹也不是传教士。
So I don't know what "sycophant" means, but the rest is right.
那我不知道“拍马屁”的意思,但余下的是对的。
He was such a sycophant, a social-climbing sycophant if ever there was one.
他是这样的一个仆人,只会利用社会关系往上攀爬的仆人!
近义词
n.
toadeaterflatterer
adj.
flatteringsubservient
同根词
词根 sycophant
sycophantic
adj. 说奉承话的;阿谀的
sycophancy
n. 谄媚;奉承;追随;拍马屁
百科
1. 歌曲: Sycophant\n歌手: Cinder\n语言: 英语\n所属专辑: House Full Of No Trust\n发行日期: 2006-08-22
释义
n.
a person who acts obsequiously towards someone in order to gain advantage; a servile flatterer
拍马屁的人;谄媚者。
词源
"mid 16th cent. (denoting an informer): from French sycophante, or via Latin from Greek sukophantēs ‘informer', from sukon ‘fig' + phainein ‘to show'; the association with informing against the illegal exportation of figs from ancient Athens (recorded by Plutarch) is not substantiated."