英汉词典

pander 基本解释

• vi. 迎合；勾引；怂恿；拉皮条
• n. 怂恿者；拉皮条者；老鸨
• vt. 为…拉皮条
• n. (Pander)人名；(德、俄)潘德尔

pander 词态变化

pander 中文词源

来自中古英语Pandare,英国中世纪文学之父乔叟根据古希腊荷马史诗改编的作品《Troylus and Cryseyde》中的人物，其原型为古希腊特洛伊王子Pandaros,促成了特洛伊战争时期青年男女Troylus and Cryseyder的美好爱情，后词义过渡到媒人，皮条客，性交易中介，并最终引申词义逢迎，投其所好等。

pander 英文词源

pander

pander: [16] Pandaro was a character in Boccaccio’s Filostrato. He was the cousin of Cressida, and acted as go-between in her affair with Troilus. Chaucer took him over in his Troilus and Criseyde as Pandarus, changing him from cousin to uncle but retaining his role. His name came to be used as a generic term for an ‘arranger of sexual liaisons’ (‘If ever you prove false to one another, since I have taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful goersbetween be call’d to the world’s end after my name: call them all Panders’, says Pandarus in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida 1606), and by the mid-16th century was already well on the downward slope to ‘pimp, procurer’.

Its modern use as a verb, meaning ‘indulge’, dates from the 19th century.

pander (n.)

"arranger of sexual liaisons, one who supplies another with the means of gratifying lust," 1520s, "procurer, pimp," from Middle English Pandare (late 14c.), used by Chaucer ("Troylus and Cryseyde"), who borrowed it from Boccaccio (who had it in Italian form Pandaro in "Filostrato") as name of the prince (Greek Pandaros), who procured the love of Cressida (his niece in Chaucer, his cousin in Boccaccio) for Troilus. The story and the name are medieval inventions. Spelling influenced by agent suffix -er.

pander (v.)

"to indulge (another), to minister to base passions," c. 1600, from pander (n.). Related: Pandered; pandering.

pander 英文释义

1. someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

pander 双语例句

1. Tabloid newspapers pander to the lowest common denominator.

小报都竭力迎合大众口味。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He was forced to pander to her every whim .

她每次心血来潮他都不得不依随她。

来自《权威词典》

3. Don't pander to such people.

不要迎合这样的人.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. Those novels pander to people's liking for stories about crime.

那些小说迎合读者对犯罪故事的爱好.

来自辞典例句

5. Our goal should be neither to pander to beginners nor to rush intermediates into expertise.

我们的目标既不是吸引新手,也不是将中间用户推向专家层.

来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

pander 实用场景例句

to pander to sb's wishes

迎合某人的愿望

牛津词典

The speech was pandering to racial prejudice.

这篇讲话是在纵容种族偏见。

牛津词典

He has offended the party's traditional base by pandering to the rich and the middle classes.

他逢迎富人和中产阶级，得罪了该党的传统支持者。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...books which don't pander to popular taste.

不迎合大众口味的书

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Politicians all too often pander to the envious tendencies among the electorate.

政客们常常会迎合选民的妒忌倾向.

期刊摘选

He refused to pander to nostalgia and escapism ( New York Times )

他拒绝迎合怀旧心理和逃避主义 ( 纽约时报 )

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Don't pander to the child, it's not good for him to have everything he wants.

不要放纵孩子, 他要什么就给什么是没有好处的.

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Forced by intense competition, the media has no choice but to pander to the readers.

美国媒体在竞争剧烈的情况下, 不得不顺应人们寻找刺激的倾向.

期刊摘选

For all that I esteem and value you, Boromir, I will not pander to prejudice.

如此的尊敬与看重, 并不代表我会因此屈从于偏见.

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Those novels pander to people's liking for stories about crime.

那些小说迎合读者对犯罪故事的爱好.

辞典例句

Parents should not pander to their children too much.

父母不应该太宠爱他们的孩子.

期刊摘选

Don't pander to such people.

不要迎合这样的人.

《简明英汉词典》

Our goal should be neither to pander to beginners nor to rush intermediates into expertise.

我们的目标既不是吸引新手,也不是将中间用户推向专家层.

About Face 3交互设计精髓

I have never been tempted pander to everyone.

我从不追求让所有人都喜欢.

期刊摘选

Don't pander to such people!

不要迎合这种人!

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Those novels pander to people's liking for about crime.

那些小说“迎合 ” 读者对犯罪故事的爱好.

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Notably, he has refused to pander to Japanese nationalists by visiting Tokyo Yasukuni war shrine.

特别是他拒绝参拜访问包含日本民族主义色彩的东京靖国神社.

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The newspapers there pander to people's interest in crime and violence.

那儿的报纸迎合读者对犯罪和暴力的兴趣.

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Yet that does not mean they should pander to China's pride.

但是,这并不意味着西方政客需要迎合中国的骄傲.

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He was forced to pander to her every whim .

她每次心血来潮他都不得不依随她。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Tabloid newspapers pander to the lowest common denominator.

小报都竭力迎合大众口味。

柯林斯例句