好话

He never ingratiated himself anywhere, not in the slightest, but kept to himself

他从来不逢迎讨好别人，连半句好话也不说，而只是独往独来。

If my right ear itched, then something good was being said about me by somebody.

如果右耳朵痒痒，那就是有人在说我的好话。

If your right ear itches,somebody is saying good things about you.

如果你的右耳痒，有人在说你的好话

Believe me,charles,I've lobbied on your behalf.

相信我 charles 我还替你说了好话呢

This is the worst kind of give and take because we are actually saying something nice and then peppering it with criticism.

这是最糟糕的一类&付出-索取&因为我们其实在说好话然然后再加上一些批评。

So they came and placated them, and led them out and asked that they leave the city.

遂来向他们说好话，领出后，请求他们离开那城。

Tom tried again, with soothing words in his mouth, and was repulsed again.

汤姆又试了一次，嘴里还讲着好话，可是她还是不理他。

He soft-soaped his mom to buy his car.

他向妈妈说好话，要她买部汽车给他。

No amount of candy will prevent the Kitchen God from making a bad report about this city!

灶神没有受到人们的尊敬，他回到天庭后不会为这个城市说好话的。

S ays nice words about you.

在别人的面前说你的好话

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。