趋炎附势

But the immediate camarilla surrounding China sleader was a contradictory crew - an indigestible mixture of YMCA secretaries, Shanghai gangsters, ambitious sycophants, disillusioned visionaries, party thugs, tired revolutionaries, wistful liberals, palace eunuchs, feudal clowns, corrupt bureaucrats, Confucian mystics and sick psychopaths.

在这位中国首脑身边管事的是一个矛盾重重的班子、生拼硬凑的大杂烩，其中有基督教青年会的秘书、上海的地痞流氓、趋炎附势的野心家、幻想破灭的空想家、党棍、心灰意懒的革命党人、郁郁不得志的自由派、宫廷宦官、打诨插科的小丑、贪官污吏、帮闲文人和心理变态症患者。

Coincidently, in China, there are these young artists who are present during this exhibition, who rebel the tradition, doubt and worry the reality; facing the prosperous image of the world modern art with a "marginal" attitude of real artists, and keep distance with gaudy social climber; with missional responsibility and criticalness, they enter into personal experience and thinking.

巧如斯，在中国有这样一些正如我们此次画展推出的年青艺术家，他们把对传统的叛逆和对现实的质疑与忧患自觉地保持一起；以真正艺术家的"边缘"的态度，面对国际当代艺术一片繁荣的景象，疏离于趋炎附势的媚俗；带着一种使命感和批判性，"远离大叙事、反符号化、反政治化，"进入个体化的体验和思考。

Nepotism, graft, corruption, and cronyism abound and the lines between aristocrat, business executive and politician are blurred.

裙带关系、趋炎附势、贪污腐败和任人唯亲无处不在。贵族、商人和政客之间界限模糊。

He caters to those in power in order to seek for a high position and handsome salary .

他趋炎附势，以求高官厚禄。

He is just a rubber-stamp.

他是个趋炎附势的人物。

Mrs Brown is known as a social climber.

布朗太太是有名的趋炎附势的人。

Evelyn Waugh was a world-class snob and social climber, an aesthete whose rigid religious convictions were rarely matched by their practical application.

伊夫林。沃夫则是一位世界级的冒牌绅士和趋炎附势之人，同时也是一位审美家，他那坚定的宗教信仰几乎不曾与它们的实际应用相一致。

One who lives off and flatters the rich;a sycophant.

奉承逗乐的食客以奉承富人为生的人；趋炎附势者

Looking at the acting of the hypocrite and ignorance from the so-called stranger, while the time-server, and sycophant, the snob were permeated into the around atmosphere, I was closed the gate of heart, because I feel panic, it is seems that I was the melancholy gal who came back from 8 years ago.

站在这群所谓的陌生的人堆里，看这一幕幕虚伪和无知上演。当趋炎附势，谄媚，势力弥漫在周遭的环境里，我彻底的封闭了心门，因为害怕，我好似又回到了8年前那个忧郁的我了。

Let the sycophant or the buffoon, the satirist or the good companion, consider with himself, when his body shall be laid in the grave, and his soul pass into another state of existence

让那些趋炎附势之徒，嘻嘻哈哈的混混儿，讽刺人的专家，吃吃喝喝的酒肉朋友，反省一下：当他的躯体埋入坟墓，灵魂进入另一种存在状态之时

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失