sycophant
n. 谄媚者；奉承者
adj. 奉承的；拍马的
n.
谄媚者，拍马屁者；
变形
复数：sycophants
英英释义
sycophant[ 'sikəfənt, -fænt ]
n.a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
同义词：toadycrawlerlackey
权威例句
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sycophant
sycophant: [16] Sycophants are etymologically ‘fig-showers’. The word comes via Latin sychophanta from Greek súkophántēs, a compound formed from súkon ‘fig’ and -phántēs ‘shower’, a derivative of phaínein ‘show’ (source of English fancy, phantom, etc). Súkon (which probably came from a Semitic source that also produced Latin ficus ‘fig’, source of English fig) was used metaphorically for ‘cunt’, and hence for an ‘indecent gesture made by putting the thumb into the mouth or between two fingers’.People who grassed on criminals were said to ‘show them the fig’ – ‘show them two fingers’, as it might be expressed in modern English. And so the term súkophántēs came to be used for an ‘informer’, and eventually, via ‘one who ingratiates himself by informing’, for a ‘flatterer’ or ‘toady’.=> fancy, phantom, sycamore
sycophant (n.)
1530s (in Latin form sycophanta), "informer, talebearer, slanderer," from Middle French sycophante and directly from Latin sycophanta, from Greek sykophantes "false accuser, slanderer," literally "one who shows the fig," from sykon "fig" (see fig) + phainein "to show" (see phantasm). "Showing the fig" was a vulgar gesture made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, itself symbolic of a vagina (sykon also meant "vulva"). The modern accepted explanation is that prominent politicians in ancient Greece held aloof from such inflammatory gestures, but privately urged their followers to taunt their opponents. The sense of "mean, servile flatterer" is first recorded in English 1570s.
The explanation, long current, that it orig. meant an informer against the unlawful exportation of figs cannot be substantiated. [OED]
1. Bestowing favor on a dubious sycophant often lead to the downfall of dynasties.
宠用奸佞是历代王朝亡国的重要原因。
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2. An obsequious follower or dependent;a sycophant.
奴才，马屁精一个奴颜卑膝的献媚者；溜须拍马者
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3. A sycophant;a parasite.
钻营拍马的人；食客
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4. A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
谄媚者出于私利而吹捧或尊敬他人的人；拍马者
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5. One who lives off and flatters the rich; a sycophant.
奉承逗乐的食客以奉承富人为生的人；趋炎附势者
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6. It was the struggle between the Han nationality scholar and the sycophant clique and the clique of Xungui that make the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasty to decline rapidly.
第四部分讨论汉族士人与恩倖集团在东魏、北齐的状况以及他们和勋贵集团的斗争。
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7. 1.[Formal] cunning; crafty and fawning; 2.[Formal] a crafty sycophant
奸佞
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8. a bootlicker; a sycophant; a toady
拍马屁者
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