sycophants是什么意思？

sycophants

• n. 谄媚者，拍马屁者( sycophant的名词复数 )；

例句

• During his life Confucius loathed spineless, fawning sycophants, but he particularly phony gentlemen who appeared respectable. 孔子一生不耻没气节或巧言令色的小人, 但他尤其最痛恶与貌似恭谨的伪君子为伍.
• They even praise such a disappointing program, they really are sycophants. 这么差劲的节目也有人夸赞, 真是捧臭脚!
• The office is a menagerie of egotists and sycophants. 该办公室乃是自私者与谄媚者汇集之处.
• ...a dictator surrounded by sycophants, frightened to tell him what he may not like. 被一群不敢谏言的佞臣簇拥的独裁者

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  阿谀奉承的人;谄媚者;马屁精
  A sycophant is a person who behaves in a sycophantic way.
  例句
  ...a dictator surrounded by sycophants, frightened to tell him what he may not like. 被一群不敢谏言的佞臣簇拥的独裁者