Speak in flattering terms.

用阿谀的言辞说。

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The newspapers wrote about his performance in very flattering terms.

报纸用吹捧的语言记述了他的表演。

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Goldman Sachs has made mistakes and employees probably talked about some of their clients behind their backs in less than flattering terms.

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Members of other faiths will, perhaps, always think of him in contradictory terms - immensely charming and gentle in his personal dealings with Muslim and Jewish leaders and yet capable of huge PR gaffes, such as the now infamous Regensburg speech of 2006 in which he was accused of describing the prophet Muhammed in less than flattering terms.

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But others in the media that wrote stories about him in the paper that were not flattering, he condemned in the harshest of terms.

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