(ingratiate oneself)bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them 使讨好,使巴结,使迎合 a sycophantic attempt to ingratiate herself with the local aristocracy. 她阿谀奉承讨好地方权贵的企图。
派生 ingratiation noun 语源
early 17th cent.: from Latin in gratiam 'into favour', on the pattern of obsolete Italian ingratiare, earlier form of ingraziare