If you don't blandish your wife now, you will try to marry a good woman tomorrow.

今天不努力讨好老婆,明天努力讨好老婆。

That shopgirl is studious to please the customers.

那位女店员很想讨好顾客。

She was anxious to please the smart kid.

她很想讨好那潇洒小伙子。

Nobody was keen to take on such a thankless task.

没有人愿意承担这费力不讨好。

The President’s attempts to be all things to all men had disastrous consequences.

总统企图讨好各方做法招致了灾难性后果。

He brought her some flowers, hoping to curry favor with her.

他给她带了一些花, 想讨好她。

Jackson is leaning over backwards to persuade his wealthy uncle.

杰克逊想尽办法去讨好他那个有钱叔叔。

Don't fling yourself at that boy.

你不要讨好那个男孩儿。

They are disapprobatory, they find means to approach to me. blandish to me.

他们不以为然，他们总是想尽一切办法我，讨好我。

It was a thankless job, so we choked him off before long.

那是一件吃力不讨好事情, 所以我们很快就不让他做了。

I’m sure Ray will make a special effort to please the new supervisor—after all, he knows which side his bread is buttered!

我相信雷会刻意讨好新主管，毕竟他知道自己利益之所在。

Just remember—flattery will get you nowhere. There’s no use trying to be nice to me so I’ll give you what you want.

记住—拍马屁不会使你如愿以偿。你讨好我也没用，我不会给你想要东西。

I know you want to keep everyone happy, but I’m afraid you can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds on this issue.

我知道你想让每个人都开心，可是恐怕在这一点上你不可能两面讨好。

He kisses up to organised labour by scorning free-trade deals and seeking to deny workers the right to a secret ballot on whether to unionise.

他为了讨好有组织劳工，对自由贸易条款不屑一顾，试图否决工人权利，以无记名投票方式决定是否成立工会。

You can see problems that aren't appear in a double-spaced Courier typescript. ( Yes, you could do this in the old days on galley proofs, but that was an expensive luxury for most writers).

（没错，以前在毛条校样时也能发现问题，但是这对于大多数作家说，是费力不讨好）。

I like to run , feel that being well very much very unrestrained.As if this only has me in the world, nonutility goes to curry favour with others again , nonutility goes to admire others again.

我喜欢跑步，感觉很舒服很自在，似乎这个世界上只有我，不用再去讨好别人，不用再去羡慕别人。