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Apart from being a footnote to our beloved Jean-Jacques, this principle may allow us to build—if not elsewhere, then at least in our realm, so steeped in Fourier, Proudhon, and Blanc at the expense of Burke and Tocqueville—a social order resting on a less self-flattering basis than was our habit, and perhaps with less disastrous consequences.

除了成为我们敬爱的让-雅克的脚注外，这个原则还可以使我们建设一种基于比我们的习惯较少自我吹嘘，并且说不定也较少灾难性后果的社会秩序——如果不是建设在别处，起码也建设在我们这个过分沉浸于傅立叶、蒲鲁东和勃朗，而以牺牲伯克和托克维尔为代价的王国。

This creates a shadowless light over the face that is still flattering.

这样的设计可以再照镜子的时候在脸上营造出一种无影光效果。

The dress code was "slutty bridesmaid or slurring groomsman," but Tucker had ignored her own injunction, and was dressed in a flattering strapless dress the color of sea foam and red patent-leather Louboutin pumps with four-inch heels.

当晚的着装要求是要么带猥琐性质的伴娘装，要么带诋毁性质的伴郎装。但是塔克自己却不顾这个要求，当晚她身穿着一条漂亮的海蓝色吊带连衣裙，脚穿一双著名的卢博婷四英寸跟的红色漆皮单鞋。

University bosses may manipulate pass marks to give the appearance of success. Students game the system too. They can give spuriously flattering assessments of their own institution—thus raising its ranking and the value of the degrees it issues.

大学领导们可能利用排名来表现他们工作的成功，而学生们也可能在排名体系中玩点小把戏，他们给予母校虚假和过高的评价，这样能提高排名，加重自己学位的份量。

The jeans are flattering because they stylize the lower part of the body.

牛仔裤恭维，因为他们风格化的下身。

Such an attendant is obviously a type of person who would do anything, and thus toadeater (first recorded 1629) was the perfect name for a flattering, fawning parasite.

很明显，这样一个帮手是一种什么事都会做的人，这样，用toadeater （最早记载于1629年）这个词来称呼奉承拍马的寄生者是再合适不过了。

It is said that the best way of flattering someone is 16 him a "top hat".

据说奉承别人最好的办法就是给他戴"高帽子"。

This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty - this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.

" "这是威尼斯，奉承和怀疑之美-这个城市里，一半一半的童话故事和旅游陷阱，在空气中的有害健康的艺术一旦rankly和肉感开花，在那里作曲家受到启发，lulling的somniferous色情铃声。

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

不要在你的灵魂上涂抹那种使你感到自慰的香膏吧。

But thou must equally avoid flattering men and being veied at them, for both are unsocial and lead to harm.

但是你必须同等地避免奉承人们又不因他们而生出烦恼，因为两者都是反社会和导致的。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。