The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster error, and never to give advice, which may annoy.--Moliere

阿庾者的艺术是利用伟大的弱点,助长他们的错误,永远不提出会使他们感觉不快的忠告。--莫里哀

despised all cowards and flatterers .

鄙视所有的胆小鬼和溜须拍马者

Don’t trust flatterers . They usually want something for themselves.--Aesop

不要信任奉承别人的人,他们往往另有所图。--伊索

Neither is it merely in the phrase;for whereas it hath been well said,that the arch-flatterer,with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence,is a man’s self;certainly the lover is more.

而在其他场合,同样的词令只能招人耻笑。古人有一句名言:“最大的奉承,人总是留给自己的”。--只有对情人的奉承要算例外。

A good man should disdain flatterers

好人应鄙视谄媚者。

When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner

马屁精会面,魔鬼去赴宴

You heroes are ever flatterers , returned Fulvia, hastening to appropriate the compliment specially to herself

你们英雄总是拍马奉承的能手,福尔维亚忙不迭地把这句恭维话当作特别为她而说的。

He spoke in a voice of the procureur-general, with the rigid inflexibility of neck and shoulders which caused his flatterers to say (as we have before observed)that he was the living statue of the law

他是以一个首席检察官的语气和单调来说这几句话的,脖子硬挺挺地一动都不动,这正是为什么那些恭维他的人说他是法律的化身。

Not that Timon’s wealth all went to enrich these wicked flatterers .

泰门的家产并不都是拿去填这些卑劣的谄媚者的腰包的。

A great man should disdain flatterers

伟大的人物应鄙视献媚者。

A great man should disdain flatterers .

伟大的人物应鄙视献媚者。

A real man disdains flatterers .

一个真正的男子汉鄙视谄媚者。

||1:Indians hear such criticisms less often because Mr Modi has cowed the press, showering bounty on flatterers while starving, controlling and bullying critics.||2:He himself appears only at major events.||3:He has also suborned respected government institutions, hounding the boss of the central bank from office, for example, as well as loosing tax collectors on political opponents, packing state universities with ideologues and cocking a snook at rules meant to insulate the army from politics.

||1:印度人很少听到这样的批评，因为莫迪恐吓了媒体，对拍马屁的人慷慨大方，而对批评人士吝啬有加、大力控制、恃强凌弱。||2:他本人只在重大活动中露面。||3:他还收买了有威望的政府机构，比如迫使央行行长离职，对政敌放松税收，在州立大学塞满空想家，还蔑视旨在隔离军队和政治的规定。

In exchange for your cheese I will give you a piece of advice for the future: "Do not trust flatterers . "

看在你送给我乳酪的份上，我会送给你一条建议：不要相信拍马屁的人。