英语词汇“sycophant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

syc·o·phant

(sĭkə-fənt, sīkə-)

A person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a servile manner.

[Latin sȳcophanta, informer, slanderer, from Greek sūkophantēs, informer, from sūkon phainein, to show a fig (perhaps originally said of denouncers of theft or exportation of figs or of persons making a lascivious gesture resembling a fig) : sūkon, fig + phainein, to show; see bhā-¹ in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

syc′o·phantic (-făntĭk), syc′o·phanti·cal (-tĭ-kəl) adj.

syc′o·phanti·cal·ly adv.

单词	sycophant
释义	syc·o·phant (sĭkə-fənt, sīkə-) n. A person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a servile manner. [Latin sȳcophanta, informer, slanderer, from Greek sūkophantēs, informer, from sūkon phainein, to show a fig (perhaps originally said of denouncers of theft or exportation of figs or of persons making a lascivious gesture resembling a fig) : sūkon, fig + phainein, to show; see bhā-¹ in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] syc′o·phantic (-făntĭk), syc′o·phanti·cal (-tĭ-kəl) adj. syc′o·phanti·cal·ly adv.
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