sycophantic

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He is surrounded by a chorus of sycophantic philosophers who have substituted pandiabolism for pantheism.
他被一群谄媚的哲学家围着，他们从无神论者变成了有神论。
Canute did not think he could control the tides; he took the sycophantic suggestion that he might and turned it into an opportunity for instruction.
克努特并不认为他可以控制潮汐，他接受了那个谄媚的建议将它作为一个提供启示的机会。
If he's drinking with his mates, he would be unlikely to welcome approaches from outside the group, unless sycophantic and ego-enhancing.
如果他跟同伴一起，他一般不欢迎陌生人的接近，不过如果你会拍马屁的话那就另当别论。

Members of press clubs are often seen in sycophantic gaggles as they follow top politicians through their day.
FORBES: Hold the presses
He (or she) would be pro-active, approachable, knowledgeable and good company for journalists, without being sycophantic to them.
ECONOMIST: European politics
He was just trying to demonstrate that his sycophantic courtiers were foolish.
ECONOMIST: Letters

(of a person or of behaviour) praising people in authority in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them

If you describe someone as sycophantic, you disapprove of them because they flatter people who are more important and powerful than they are in order to gain an advantage for themselves.