Protesters on syria 's streets say that the better-known internal dissidents spend too much time currying favour with diplomats in damascus .
叙利亚大街上的示威者则说国内有名的异见分子同样也花了大把时间给驻大马士革的外交官溜须拍马。
Shipping firms loyal to the new empire were awarded the most plum contracts , while the fiercely independent baobabs had trouble currying favor with the nascent regime .
忠于新帝国的船运公司被授予最称心的合同,而极其独立的贝欧巴家族很难拍上新政权的马屁。
Currying favour with the chinese is both sensible and necessary if you are serious about growing in a nation with 1.3 billion people .
如果重视在这个拥有十三亿人口的国家里发展,投其所好不仅明智,而且必然。
His fellow workers despised him for currying favor with the boss .
他的工友们为了讨好老板嘲笑他。
Neighbouring egypt , which long sought to impede south sudan 's quest for independence ostensibly because of fears over the white nile 's headwaters , is now also currying favour with offers of educational and technical aid .
But a small unit within the bank has been currying favour with religious groups , working to ease their suspicions and use their influence to further the bank 's goals .
But there are concerns that the western media giants currying favour in beijing may be tempted to soften their editorial approach to china in more subtle ways .
但是也有人担忧西方媒体巨头被诱以更为微妙的方式改善对华态度。
Rather than focus on the few corridors that need high-speed rail lines the most the obama administration doled out half a billion here and half a billion there a strategy better-suited to currying political support than to addressing real infrastructure problems .
In the period of currying out quality education , prodding lifetime studying and building socialistic harmonious society , the national dancing education brings the unique functions to the aspect of accelerating the aesthetic education , patriotic education and socialistic honor and disgrace concept education and so on .