词汇 | suck-up-to |
释义 | suck up to someonephrasal verb with suckverbuk /sʌk/ us /sʌk/ informaldisapproving to try to make someone in authority approve of you by doing and saying things that will please them: 奉承,巴结(某人);拍(某人)马屁 "Why do you think he offered to take all that work home?" "Oh, he's just sucking up to the boss."“你认为他为什么主动提出把那些工作都带回家做?”“哦,他只不过是为了讨好老板。” Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bootlicker bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep flummery glad-handing grovel grovelling grovellingly massage someone's egoidiom obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone sycophantically toady toadying truckle unctuous suck up to someone | American Dictionarysuck up to someonephrasal verb with suckverbus/sʌk/ disapproving to try to win the approval and good opinion of someone in authority: She’s always sucking up to the boss, telling him how wonderful he is. |
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