英语释义

• praise somewhat dishonestly

片语

cambered flatter球形校正锤

flatter greatly不胜荣幸

flatter on在…(方面)恭维

shameless flatter方〉∶指奉迎拍马

flatter oneself自鸣得意；自以为是

flatter distribution[统计]

flatter surface高精平面

Flatter Face劈面

to flatter灌米汤

You flatter你抬举了

英汉例句

• the oxford english dictionary entry for flatter admits that its etymology is 「doubtful」 but suggests that flatter may be related to flat.

  《牛津英语词典》（oed）的flatter词条则坦白写道，它的词源「成疑」，但或许与flat（扁平的）有关。

• what caesar thinks of me. i flatter no one.

  我不在乎凯撒王怎么看我，我不奉承任何人。

• despite ms. yu’s assurances that she had meant to flatter — 「jesus was in fact a very handsome man」 — i could manage but a bewildered gaze in return.

  尽管她强调说这只是奉承话——「耶稣实际上是个很帅的男人」——我仍然只能报以迷惑的眼神。

• even you, nelly, if we have a dispute sometimes, you back isabella at once; and i yield like a foolish mother: i call her a darling, and flatter her into a good temper.

  甚至你，耐莉，假使我们有时候争执，你立刻向着伊莎贝拉，我就像个没主见的妈妈似的让步了——我叫她宝贝，把她哄得心平气和。

• elizabeth, these clothes don「t flatter you at all - it should be a dress or nothing!

  那些衣服一点也不适合你--你要不就穿裙子要不就裸奔！

• i dress to flatter my assets and certain parts of my body will no longer be shown in public, but i am not depressed about that.

  我穿上裙子对自己的身体赞扬了一番，我的身体的某些部位已不能在公共场合露了但是我一点也不觉得难过。

• you must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.

  亲爱的表妹，请允许我说句自不量力的话：我相信你拒绝我的求婚，不过是照例说说罢了。

• the landscape became wider, flatter and very scenic.

  地势变得更开阔、更平整，风景十分优美。

• orange and khaki flatter those with golden skin tones.

  橘黄色和卡其色能衬托那些金黄色皮肤的人。

• men seldom flatter without some private end in view, and they who listen to such music may expect to have to pay the piper.

  谄媚人的人很少是没有自私打算的，而倾听这种音乐的人则势必要出钱。

• but then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;

  他们却用口谄媚他，用舌向他说谎。

• he does give this 「flattening」 theory a considerable amount of ink, but instead prefers the idea that flatter is evolved out of germanic roots that also gave us flit and flutter.

  他确实在「扁平」的词源上花了很大笔墨，但依然倾向于另一个观点，即flatter由日耳曼语词的词根发展而来，同一个词根还演化出flit（飞，掠过）和flutter（拍翅，抖动）。

• strong colours would flatter her pale skin and dark hair.

  亮颜色更能衬托她的白皮肤和黑头发。

• when a group of french americanophiles wanted to flatter the united states, they sent the statue of liberty.

  当一群来自法国的美国仰慕者想要讨好美国时，他们送来了自由女神像。

• i flatter myself that i have spared no pains.

  我自问是花过不少力气的.

• i flatter myself i」ve done it all rather well.

  我认为自己已经做得相当好了。

• its design provides for more stability – with its flatter profile, it acts less like a sail, making it less susceptible to winds during flights of up to 1240 miles.

  它的设计能够提供更好的稳定性——更平坦的外形，但是其作用并不像帆，这样能够在最远1240英里的飞行中更好地减少风的影响。

• you flatter yourself. why would we go to such ludicrous lengths?

  你真自以为是。我们为什么要费那么大的力气？

• it’s this flatter frequency response curve that some people are willing to spend the extra money on, and sennheiser know this.

  就是为了这更平滑的频率响应曲线有人愿意付出更多的金子，森海塞尔知道这一点。

• on hearing her routine, christopher hitchens, a polemicist, remarked that 「when comedians flatter the president, they become court jesters, and the country becomes a banana republic.」

  而善辩的克里斯托弗·西钦斯则反唇相讥：「当喜剧演员开始对总统极尽奉承，他们就成了宫廷小丑，我们的国家则成了香蕉共和国。」

• more generally, schumpeter seemed to be playing the role of grand seigneur, and he tended to flatter where flattery was not due, no doubt satirically.

  更一般的意义上，熊彼特像在扮演大领主的角色，当不用奉承时，他会奉承，当然是挖苦的。

• you can also flatter them some more by explaining that it will be difficult to correctly interpret the study results without them.

  通过解释说，如果没有他们，正确的解释研究结果是非常困难的，这样反而能够取悦他们。

• i say no at first, but they persist. they promise to work around my schedule; they flatter me.

  一开始我说「不」，但是对方坚持，保证按我的日程安排，还奉承我，对我说，「我们需要你！」

• you can make your stomach look flatter instantly by improving your posture.

  通过采取更好的坐姿，你的腹部马上就会看起来平坦一些。

• clever tailoring can flatter your figure.

  巧妙的裁剪可以使你的身材显得优美。

• and from what i heard, joseph contributed much to his deterioration, by a narrow-minded partiality which prompted him to flatter and pet him, as a boy, because he was the head of the old family.

  据我所听到的，他之所以变坏，约瑟夫出力不少，出于一种狭隘的偏爱，约瑟夫在他还是小孩的时候就捧他，娇惯他，因为他是这古老家庭的主人。

• wear clothes that flatter and fit.

  穿着好看和合身的衣服。

• in william shakespeare's play julius caesar it is said that a sure way to flatter caesar is to remind him how he hates flatterers.

  在剧作《凯撒大帝》中，莎士比亚写道，奉承凯撒大帝最稳妥的方法就是，告诉他他是如何地憎恨奉承者。

• ask them to help you pick out colors and clothes they think flatter you.

  请他们帮你挑选他们觉得令你满意的颜色和衣服。

• it is disingenuous of him to flatter me.

  他对我阿谀奉承,是居心叵测.

• atlas, the flatter of the two, has a diameter of only 18 kilometres from pole to pole, but is almost 40 kilometres across its waist.

  阿特拉斯是两者中较平整的一个，从南极点到北极点的直径只有18公里，但是它的赤道周长却有40公里。

• for there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  他们的喉咙，是敞开的坟墓。他们用舌头谄媚人。

• our milky way, if it could be viewed edge on, would display a good example of one of these galactic bulges: imagine the profile of a stereotypical flying saucer, though with a wider and flatter disk.

  我们的银河，如果可以从边缘看向中心，就会呈现出一个这种星系凸起形态的好例子：想象一下从侧面看一个传统意义上的飞碟，尽管它有一个又宽又平的圆盘。

• although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

  人常为自己的壮举自鸣得意，但是他们的壮举往往只是偶然运气产物而非伟大构想的结果。

• we flatter ourselves that we provide the best service in town.

  我们相信我们提供的服务在本市最好.

相似词

compliment恭维；称赞

adulate过分称赞；谄媚；奉承

fawn讨好；（鹿）生小鹿；（尤指狗）摇尾乞怜

praise赞扬，称赞；（对上帝的）颂扬；崇拜

blandish奉承；哄骗

romance(Romance)人名；(西)罗曼塞

praise赞扬，称赞；（对上帝的）颂扬；崇拜

deflate缩小；物价下降

trample蹂躏；践踏声

compliment恭维；称赞

congratulate祝贺；恭喜；庆贺