reflected glory

基本解釋

Basking in reflected glory is a great example of the way in which we all manipulate our social distance with others depending on whether that association makes us look good.
“一人得道，雞犬升天”是一個典型的例子，通過這種方式我們根據(jù)這種與成功的聯(lián)系給我們長臉的程度不同，來操控自己與他們的社會距離。
Britain has been a magnet for foreign students, thanks in part to the reflected glory of Oxford and Cambridge and to the fact that English is the global language of business.
英國一直對國際學(xué)生有著吸引力，從某種層上這應(yīng)當感謝牛津與劍橋大學(xué)所折射出的榮耀與英語的世界商務(wù)語言的地位。
Her son's great success reflected glory on her.
她兒子的巨大成功給她帶來了榮耀。
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"They are doing that because he is popular with their own people,which means that they get some reflected glory at home, and that is where you get (political) leverage, because this is an American leader who can speak over the heads of the domestic leaders, and that is powerful,".

He liked high culture, and basking in the reflected glory of the literary and artistic elite.
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They had hoped to bask in the reflected glory of bold, imaginative government.
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The plus side is that you get to bask in reflected glory when you align yourself with respected and influential friends.
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