汉英词典
MEANING OF 八面玲珑
八面玲珑
(八面玲瓏)
be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations)
玲珑 Exquisite and meticulous, refers to people flexible and agile / This means that the windows are bright and spacious / Later, it is used to describe people being sleek in the world and dealing with people in all aspects
原指四面八方门窗通敞明亮，后形容为人处世十分圆滑，应付周到而不得罪人。
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你真是八面玲珑。 You are a real politieian. | ||
可以说，他是一个八面玲珑的滑头。 He's something of a smooth operator. | ||
他这个人，见风使舵，八面玲珑，说了不少使大家高兴的话。 A weathercock and an artful person, he spoke a lot of beautiful words to please people. | ||
他不喜欢装假、骄傲，或是八面玲珑，作为职业军人，他的信条是：表里一致，言简意赅。 He had no taste for shame, tack or pretension, and his credo as a professional soldier was unified and concise. | ||
在选战期间他对自己的个人主张的表述给人的感觉一直是八面玲珑、态度暧昧，如果大体上看是主张变革的(正如选民和媒体直到现在才开始注意到)。 His relation to his own proposals during the campaign has been pleasantly noncommittal, if generally liberal (as voters and the media are only now getting around to noticing). | ||
