恭维

Indeed, no eulogy could be more grandiloquent than this.

真是维备至。

I don’t like the ostentation of their expensive life-style.

他奢侈,爱摆阔,我不敢维。

They embarrassed her by complimenting her on her beauty.

他维她的美貌使她很不好意思。

Don’t be fooled by all his complimentary remarks—they were all said with tongue in cheek.

别让他的维话给蒙骗住了——那些话可不能当真。

You flatter me immensely!

你太维我了！

It was a backhanded compliment.

这是一句貌似维实为挖苦的反话。

I hate his smarmy compliments.

我痛恨他拍马屁的维。

He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature.He really laid it on with a trowel.

他对她说,她是自己最喜欢的作家,还说她应该贝尔文学奖。他实际上是在维她。