flattering的意思|flattering的解释-里氏词典

flattering ['flætәriŋ]

a. 谄媚的, 讨人欢喜的

His flattering remark brought a blush in to her cheeks.
他那阿谀奉承的话使她羞得双颊通红。
Flattering or fawning attention; homage.
赞美，奉承奉承或逢迎的态度；尊敬
Offensively flattering or insincere.
令人不快地恭维的或虚伪的

flattering

[ adj ]
showing or representing to advantage
<adj.all>
a flattering color

Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Flattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattering}.] [OE. flateren,
cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel.
fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. {Flitter},
{Flutter}, {Flattery}.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.

When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak.

A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.

Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.

2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.

3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.

Flattering \Flat"ter*ing\, a.
That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a
flattering speech.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. --Shak.

A flattering painter, who made it his care,
To draw men as they ought be, not as they are.
--Goldsmith.

"He was very flattering about me and about how I run my newspapers in Britain."
To have conveyed the impression that they want to introduce charges on current accounts in the depths of a particularly severe recession invites no more flattering verdict.
With lots of bold (and flattering) stripes they sell at about Pounds 60 each and for the moment can only be bought from Bodyworks, 40 King's Road, London SW3.
By flattering first and admonishing later, he learned to handle such challenges as trouble on the set of "Roseanne."
I like to work if the work is interesting." Blue jeans, for decades the uniform of rebels and conformists alike, are fading from the fashion forefront as aging baby boomers opt for new _ and more flattering _ looks.
Many of the stories, he said, could turn out to be flattering or derogatory depending on how they were written.
Mr. McJimsey admires his subject, and casts Hopkins's actions and views in a flattering light.
Most good skiwear departments have a host of beautiful (and flattering) long-line jackets made from soft-as-butter microfibre fabrics which not only make marvellous off-duty jackets but also provide all the warmth and protection you need for skiing.
"I don't think we could have gotten a better reception than we did," Mandela said Friday before departing for Los Angeles. "It has been warm and flattering.
"A woman could walk into the room for her color and immediately be surrounded by a flattering environment," Salvatore said.
As pioneers, they are constantly subjected to a great deal of attention, not all of it flattering.
And when a Wanniski associate, Alan Reynolds, wrote a column attacking Mr. Laffer's analysis, Mr. Laffer's riposte was: "It's sort of flattering.
Who else but Was (Not Was) could get signed to their first contract with the help of a flattering letter from jazz critic David Weiss, a.k.a.
The likeliest move is a quarter point rise in the federal funds rate to 3.5 per cent, possibly accompanied by a half point rise in the discount rate, also to 3.5 per cent. More flattering US trade figures are in prospect.
If some of the numbers aren't flattering for George Bush, they are devastating for Michael Dukakis.
Perhaps not surprisingly, given the caliber of Sunday's games, most of the new monikers aren't flattering.
His first venture into the general business magazine field was Management Week, an irreverent mix of often none too flattering personality profiles, guru potboilers, and 'management' news stories.
Damore, of Old Saybrook, Conn., is a former Cape Cod resident who has written several books, including a flattering account of John F. Kennedy's years on the Cape.
For those who can't bear to bare their knees, the designers present lots of pants, but they are all in stretch-fabric or knit, also only flattering on a fortunate few.
'By offering a Marlboro to a friend or business associate you're flattering the other party,' she said. Interest among foreign companies in the potential of the China market is entirely understandable given the numbers involved.
The pavilion dominates Jing Ling and holds the grave stele, the emperor's flattering "tombstone."
As time has gone on the comparison has become even less flattering for equities.
The picture that emerges in this new study, while comprehensive, is not necessarily flattering to FDR and makes President Reagan's much beleaguered style of administration seem like a model of controlled management.
Blue jeans, for generations the uniform of rebels and conformists alike, are fading from the fashion forefront as aging baby boomers opt for new _ and more flattering _ looks.
Lagerfeld's pants are cigarette-slim, or simply cotton tights. The young, but not very flattering, favorite style is to cut off the dark tights at various lengths along the leg, showing bootees below.
Natasha Richardson, daughter of actor Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson, looks remarkably like Patty Hearst did back then, the way she'd look photographed from a very flattering angle.
Nothing flattering, mind you.

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