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To ingratiate yourself with someone is to try very hard to win their approval — extra smiles, extra praise, extra little favours — in a way that does not feel quite honest. English almost always uses it with yourself: you ingratiate yourself with a boss, a teacher, or someone who has power. You do not usually say “I ingratiated her.” The word already carries a ; we reach for it when the trying looks calculated, not when someone is simply being kind. It is a fairly formal, verb. In everyday talk people are more likely to say suck up or butter someone up, which are ruder and more spoken. You will meet ingratiate in novels, essays, and news about .
討好、巴結（多半帶貶義；口語更常說「拍馬屁」）
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ingratiateverb/ɪnˈɡɹeɪ.ʃi.eɪt/
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To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them; to insinuate oneself; to worm one's way in.
- [H]e considered this offering an homage to his merits, and an attempt on the part of the heiress to ingratiate herself into his priceless affections.
- [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.
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To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
- What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?
- the Sense of this will mightily indear and ingratiate them to us
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。