hobnobbed
英 [ˈhɒbnɒbd]
美 [ˈhɑːbnɑːbd]
v. (尤指同有钱有名望的人)过从甚密，亲近; 巴结
hobnob的过去分词和过去式
柯林斯词典
- VERB （尤指和权贵人物）厮混，过从甚密
If you disapprove of the way in which someone is spending a lot of time with a group of people, especially rich and powerful people, you can say that he or she is hobnobbing with them.- This gave Bill an opportunity to hobnob with the company's president, board chairman, and leading executives.
这使得比尔有机会和公司的总裁、董事长以及那些主要行政主管们厮混在一起。
- This gave Bill an opportunity to hobnob with the company's president, board chairman, and leading executives.
双语例句
- At first, it is true, when Clare's intelligence was fresh from a contrasting society, these friends with whom he now hobnobbed seemed a little strange.
说真的，起初克莱尔从一个完全不同的社会来到这里，他感到同他朝夕相处的这些朋友呆在一起似乎有点儿异样。 - Last year Bill Gates and Larry Summers hobnobbed with the chairman of Deutsche Bank, the boss of shell, the head of the World Food Programme and the Prime Minister of Spain.
去年，比尔盖茨和拉里萨默斯（larrysummers）在这里与德意志银行主席、壳牌集团老板、世界粮食计划署首脑以及西班牙首相进行过密谈。