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sycophant

S 开头单词

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

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    sycophantic：說奉承話的；阿諛的。
  • n性質的同根詞
    sycophancy：諂媚；奉承；追隨；拍馬屁。

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • 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）。

    • 權威例句

  • They do that with the de facto backing of their sycophant constituent governments.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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词组短语

    短語

  • 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

英英字典

    柯林斯英英字典

  • A sycophant is a person who behaves in a sycophantic way.

专业释义

    經濟學

  • 拍馬的