Word · CEFR C1 · Frequency #15343
Fully loadedflattery
奉承；恭维；谄媚
Excessive or insincere praise, often given to win favor.
- 1.
Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
过分的赞美或认可,往往不真诚,有时为讨好而刻意为之。
- 2.
excessive or insincere praise
过度的或不真诚的赞美
- 3.
An instance of excessive praise.
过分赞美的事例。
过分的赞美或认可,往往不真诚,有时为讨好而刻意为之。；过度的或不真诚的赞美；过分赞美的事例。；谄媚；阿谀
In use
He resorted to flattery to win her approval.
I don't need your flattery; just tell me the truth.
Flattery can sometimes open doors that honesty cannot.
use flattery to do sth
He used flattery to gain her trust.
他用谄媚来赢得她的信任。
be susceptible to flattery
susceptible表示易受影响的。
She is susceptible to flattery from her colleagues.
她容易受到同事阿谀的影响。
flattery from sb
The manager was annoyed by the constant flattery from his subordinates.
Connections
Collocations
- blatant flattery
- 露骨的奉承
- He dismissed the compliments as blatant flattery.他称这些赞美为露骨的奉承，不予理会。
- flattery will get you nowhere
- 奉承不管用
- Flattery will get you nowhere with me.奉承对我没用。
- immune to flattery
- 不为奉承所动
- She is immune to flattery and judges people by their actions.她不为奉承所动，以行动来判断别人。
- susceptible to flattery
- 容易听信奉承
- He is susceptible to flattery, which makes him easy to manipulate.他容易听信奉承，所以很容易被人操控。
- empty flattery
- 空洞的恭维
- Her praise sounded like empty flattery rather than genuine appreciation.她的赞美听起来像是空洞的恭维，而不是真心的欣赏。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记住“flattery”像“flat（平的）+tery”：夸人时把话说得又平又顺，听着舒服却不真心。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常对话、正式文章 flattery 为中性词，通常口语和书面语都适用，多用来形容不真诚的恭维或奉承。语气不算特别正式，但也不俚俗。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 battery、cattery、chattery 押韵，三者（美式英语）的 /ætɝi/ 部分一致。注意形近词：flatter 是 flattery 的拼写主干，但以 /ɚ/ 结尾，没有末尾的 /i/ 音，不押韵；flattering（/ˈflætərɪŋ/）也多一个音节，不押韵。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, OCTANOVE, WIKTIONARY.