Don't waste your time buttering me up, Johnny. I'm not raising your salary anytime soon.

不要浪费时间来巴结我。我近期内是不会给你涨工资的。

Or if someone is trying to butter you up?

或者有人想要“给你涂黄油”（直译）又是什么意思？

You were just trying to butter me up!

你只是想拍我马屁！

A limo? I see you're trying to butter me up!

豪华轿车？我看你们是想讨好我吧！

I'll 'butter her up'! But isn't it a bit insincere?

我要去讨好她！但是这样会不会有点虚伪？

Yeah, I see what you mean. So you'd better butter her up then!

我明白你的意思了。所以你最好去奉承一下她！

The director was always ready to butter up Angelina Jolie.

这名导演总是乐于去讨好安吉丽娜·朱莉。

And you also heard an idiom with butter: to butter someone up.

奉承某人。

So, if you butter up to someone, maybe you're trying to get them to do something.

如果你拍某个人的马屁，可能你就是在想求这个人帮你做点什么。

If you butter up to me, maybe you're writing a message on the forum, saying: " Benjamin, dah-dah-dah-dah-dah" , and that's buttering up.

如果你想夸赞我，也许你就会在论坛上写一些评论，说：“Benjamin，布拉布拉布拉布拉”，这就是夸赞我。

Or, he'll have to butter his boss up if he wants to take extra leave at Christmas.

或，他不得不奉承他的老板，因为他想要在圣诞节多请几天假。

So that's all this day was? A plan to butter me up before delivering bad news? Come on, buddy.

原来今天是这么个节奏，先礼后兵，图穷匕见。兄弟，别这样。

If you butter someone up, you say nice things to them so they'll do something you want.

如果你奉承、恭维某人，你对某人说好听的话，这样他们就会做一些你想要的事情。

If she wants the most able staff to work on fragile states, she will have to butter them up.

如果她想让最有能力的员工为脆弱的国家工作，她将不得不讨好他们。

Oh, he's just trying to butter you up. And for the record, butter is an excellent lubricant for your rectal exam.

他只是在拍你马屁，强调下，黄油可是直肠检查中，很好的润滑剂。

And there are healthier alternatives to both, such as vegetable oil spreads or using olive oil to dip your bread instead of buttering up.

其实这两种黄油都有更健康的替代品，比如用植物油抹面包，或者用橄榄油蘸面包来代替抹黄油。

You " butter" believe it ya'll. Newport High School, " buttered" us up by leaving a mention on our YouTube page.

你最好相信是需要的。纽波特高中的同学们，欢迎到CNN10的Youtube主页留言。

When you're doing this, you're buttering somebody up.

当你这样做的时候， 你就是在奉承别人。

He was surrounded by people buttering him up all the way to the top floor!

他被人包围着，一直到顶楼！

I would just eat straight up peanut butter.

- 我会直接吃花生酱。