sycophant

sycophant怎么读

英式音标：[ˈsɪkəfænt]

美式音标：[ˈsɪkəfənt, ˈsaɪkə-]

sycophant基本解释

n. 谄媚者；奉承者

adj. 奉承的；拍马的

sycophant的意思释义

n.

谄媚者，拍马屁者；

变形

复数：sycophants

英英释义

n.a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

同义词：toadycrawlerlackey

sycophant用法及例句

例句参考

The Sycophant-Parasite

Sycophant: An API for Research in Context-Aware User Interfaces

Pseudomonas in cystic fibrosis sylph or sycophant?

The Shifting Sycophant: Changing Implications of a Label in Athenian Democracy

Tracking a Sycophant Wireless Sensor Network for its seamless integration to mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Tracking a Sycophant Wireless Sensor Network for its seamless integration to mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

SYCOPHANT WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TRACKED BY SPARSE MOBILE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS WHILE COOPERATIVELY MAPPING AN AREA

The National Park Service: Groveling Sycophant or Social Conscience: Telling the Story of Mountains, Valley, and Barbed Wire at Manz...

KORRELATIONEN UND MATERIALKOMPENSATION BEI CERAMBYCIDEN. (UNTERSUCHUNGEN AN HARPIUM MOEDAX Deg., HARPIUM SYCOPHANT A Schrnk., HARPIU...

sycophant词源

sycophant

sycophant: [16] Sycophants are etymologically ‘fig-showers’. The word comes via Latin sychophanta from Greek súkophántēs, a compound formed from súkon ‘fig’ and -phántēs ‘shower’, a derivative of phaínein ‘show’ (source of English fancy, phantom, etc). Súkon (which probably came from a Semitic source that also produced Latin ficus ‘fig’, source of English fig) was used metaphorically for ‘cunt’, and hence for an ‘indecent gesture made by putting the thumb into the mouth or between two fingers’.People who grassed on criminals were said to ‘show them the fig’ – ‘show them two fingers’, as it might be expressed in modern English. And so the term súkophántēs came to be used for an ‘informer’, and eventually, via ‘one who ingratiates himself by informing’, for a ‘flatterer’ or ‘toady’.=> fancy, phantom, sycamore

sycophant (n.)

1530s (in Latin form sycophanta), \"informer, talebearer, slanderer,\" from Middle French sycophante and directly from Latin sycophanta, from Greek sykophantes \"false accuser, slanderer,\" literally \"one who shows the fig,\" from sykon \"fig\" (see fig) + phainein \"to show\" (see phantasm). \"Showing the fig\" was a vulgar gesture made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, itself symbolic of a vagina (sykon also meant \"vulva\"). The modern accepted explanation is that prominent politicians in ancient Greece held aloof from such inflammatory gestures, but privately urged their followers to taunt their opponents. The sense of \"mean, servile flatterer\" is first recorded in English 1570s.

The explanation, long current, that it orig. meant an informer against the unlawful exportation of figs cannot be substantiated. [OED]

sycophant相关例句

1.Bestowing favor on a dubious sycophant often lead to the downfall of dynasties.

宠用奸佞是历代王朝亡国的重要原因。

8.a bootlicker; a sycophant; a toady

拍马屁者