sycophant
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈsɪkəfænt]
- 美式音标 [ˈsɪkəfənt, ˈsaɪkə-]
- 国际音标 ['sikəfənt, -fænt]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 諂媚者；奉承者
- adj. 奉承的；拍馬的
词根记忆
- syco(無花果) + phan(顯現) + t→獻上無花果→馬屁精
- syco + phant(看作elephant，大象)→硬說人腿壯如象腿→拍馬屁的人，諂媚者
英汉例句
- No, the answer is not to play sycophant and brown-nose.
不，答案肯定不是拍馬屁或者奉承。 - Mr Mugabe, sycophant-surrounded and with his own foreign-currency wallet, is short of neither bread nor baubles, and may do the same.
佞人環繞且有海外存款的穆加貝衣食無憂、怡然自得，他很可能做出同樣的事來。 - At the time I was told this I had no idea why a butterfly might be called a butterflyand so I kept my mouth shut (like a sniveling sycophant).
我聽到這些話的時候，竝不知道蝴蝶爲什麽叫做蝴蝶。 所以我保持沉默（就像個哭哭啼啼的馬屁精）。 - They do that with the de facto backing of their sycophant constituent governments.
FORBES: The ECB Gave Cyprus Its Gun To Play Russian Roulette - Careful examination of the facts show that those whom are truly unable to obtain healthcare coverage are not nearly the many millions quoted by the sycophant media.
FORBES: The GOP Solution To Health Coverage For Pre-Existing Medical Conditions - Accentuating the parental role as sycophant is the insane amount of money many spend on training, equipment and travel teams in search of that Holy Scholarship.
FORBES: What 'Outside the Lines' Missed About 'Entitled' Young Athletes
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- a sycophant 奴才
- crafty sycophant 奸佞
- servile sycophant 指善於迅速改變自己立場或觀點的人
- the sycophant clique 恩幸集團
- Mary is a sycophant 瑪麗是個馬屁精
短語
专业释义
- 拍馬的