
8. He is a brown-nose. 他是個馬屁精.
馬屁精這種用法在辦公室應該很常見吧! 凡是喜歡拍別人的人都可以說是 brown-nose. Brown-nose 這個字也可以當動詞拍馬屁來用, 例如, "He likes to brown-nose his supervisor." (他喜歡拍老板的馬屁.) 或是另一個也很口語的講法, kiss up to somebody. 例如, "I don't like to kiss up to my boss." (我不喜歡拍我老板的馬屁.)