buttering

基本解释

Talk to your professors beforehand (but no buttering please) and find out how you can fare better at the classes.
事先和自己的教授聊聊天（切忌巴結），找出如何可以更好的在班級中生存；
Don't praise Westerners too highly when we compliment them. Otherwise, they may think you're just buttering them up!
儅我們稱贊西方人時不要把他們捧過頭，否則，他們會認爲你衹是在奉承。
Most interviewees require a lavish show of flattery before they will relax but McCartney is the opposite: she seems to tense up and retreat the instant she thinks I'm buttering her up.
大多數的受訪者都喜歡聽奉承話，這樣他們才會放松起來。但麥卡特尼恰恰相反：她看起來變得神經緊張，在覺得我在拍馬屁的時候，她似乎想廻避。

He intends to buy ads in Cambodian, Spanish and Korean newspapers and already spends evenings buttering up church groups.
FORBES: Magazine Article
Zurich's bankers claim they can easily substitute Internet updates and polished chrome for evenings at the opera and velvet plush—when it comes to buttering up, they are flexible.
ECONOMIST: Private banking
He cultivates what he sees as his many constituencies, attending meetings, giving speeches and buttering up the rich at restaurants with the energy of a man running for office.
ECONOMIST: A delicate task for William Bratton in Los Angeles

Butter is a soft yellow substance made from cream. You spread it on bread or use it in cooking.
If you butter something such as bread or toast, you spread butter on it.