I'm not your toady and I'm not your friend.

我不当你的仆从 也不当你是朋友。

I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.

我问道，想象着嘲笑和笑声， 阿谀奉承者的阿谀奉承，专业诗人的怀疑。

I'm not your toady and I'm not your friend. Though I would treasure your friendship, I'm mainly interested in your facility with murder.

我不当你的仆人, 也不当你的朋友.但我珍视你的友谊, 我主要看重你杀人的身手.

Every company has its share of toadies who specialise in managing up: flattering the bosses and claiming more credit than is their due.

每家公司都有专会向上管理的马屁精：奉承老板，把多于他们应得的功劳揽在自己身上。

The historian, the biographer, even the poet, may be a money-market gambler, a social toady, a clamorous Chauvinist, or an unscrupulous wire-puller.

历史学家、传记作家， 甚至诗人，都可能是货币市场的赌徒、社交马屁精、喧嚣的沙文主义者， 或肆无忌惮的勒索者。

Unfortunately the comte was simply a fellow who was inflated by all kinds of pretensions which had been suggested to him by all his toadies.

不幸的是，这位伯爵只是一个被他所有的阿谀奉承者向他提出的各种虚荣心膨胀的家伙。

This modest position was envied by all the toadies; Norbert kept his father's young secretary in countenance by speaking to him, or mentioning him by name once or twice in the evening.

所有阿谀奉承者都羡慕这种谦逊的地位。诺伯特通过和他父亲说话，或者在晚上一两次提到他的名字，来保持对他父亲年轻秘书的好感。

Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had a toady neighbor; a widow lady of that highly sympathetic nature that she agreed with everybody, blessed everybody, and shed smiles and tears on everybody, according to circumstances.

口袋先生和太太有一个蟾蜍邻居。一位具有高度同情心的寡妇女士，她同意每个人的意见，祝福每个人，并根据情况向每个人流微笑和眼泪。