curry favor with

基本解釋

Everyone in this company knows that he"s trying to curry favor with the board of the directors.
公司?的每一個(gè)人都知道他想要巴結(jié)董事會(huì)。
Everyone else piles on, hoping to curry favor with the popular child.
每一個(gè)孩子都附和著，希望與大衆(zhòng)保持一致。
Apparently, the Babylonians started this whole annual tradition – they made resolutions to the gods in order to curry favor with them.
顯而易見，這種每年一度的傳統(tǒng)是巴比倫人那裡開始的——他們對(duì)著神霛訂下新年計(jì)劃，爲(wèi)了討寵而已。

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