sycophant是什么意思_sycophant的用法_词性_词根

双语例句

The prime minister is surrounded by sycophants.

首相被谄媚者们包围着
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

adj.

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

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

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."