sycophancy was the device of the least trustworthy.
阿谀奉承之辈最不可靠。
the problem with sycophancy isn’t so much that it’s offensive to watch, but that it’s a lousy business strategy.
拍马屁做法的错误之处并不在看起来有多么愚蠢,而是它本身是一个糟糕的商业策略。
with one exception: by opportunistically swapping labour’s longstanding sycophancy to rupert murdoch for excoriation of him, mr miliband scored a hit over the phone-hacking scandal.