1.
He never tries to curry favor with those over him.
他从不去讨好上司。
2.
He is upright and would never fawn on his boss deliberately.
他有狷介之气, 绝对不会刻意讨好上司。
3.
Jack tried to make up to his boss.
杰克试图讨好他的上司。
4.
He leaned over backwards to please his immediate superior.
他拼命讨好他的顶头上司。
5.
He never crawls to his superiors.
他对上司从不卑躬屈膝。
6.
You must not crawl into the favor of your superiors.
你不应卑躬屈膝地讨好你的上司。
7.
You'd better not go above your boss' head to ask for instructions
你最好不要越过你的上司去(请示)工作。
8.
Since they generally assess and probe professionally rather than socially, they start talking business very quickly.
他们一般是从职业角度而不是从社交活动上去评价和探讨事情的，所以他们很快就开始谈正事。
9.
He cut his own throat by being nasty to the boss.
他对上司不礼貌是自讨苦吃。
10.
In the meantime, he became an expert at pleasing his superiors.
与此同时，他讨好上司的技巧已变得很娴熟。
11.
He looks slow-witted, but he is very likable.
他看上去笨头笨脑的, 不过很讨人喜欢。
12.
Don't try to impress the new boss, he hates being sucked up to.
休要去新上司面前显弄,他不吃马屁。
13.
I wish he wouldn' t go out every night.
他要不是每天晚上都出去就好了.
14.
He missed out on a chance to go to college because of his ill health.
他因身体不好, 失去了上大学的机会。
15.
Last summer I traveled by boat to my grandmother from Shanghai,and just right met him who went home to visit his relatives from army.
去年夏天,我从上海乘船到外婆家去,恰好碰到他也从部队回家探亲。
16.
When his employers discovered his shameful past,they hounded him out of the company.
当他的雇主发现他过去不光彩的行为后,就把他从公司赶了出去。
17.
His grandeurs were stricken valueless; they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags.
他的荣华一下子变得一钱不值，好像一些碎布片似的从他身上脱落下去了。
18.
Touch him for a quid, will you?
向他讨一镑好不好?