ingratiate

动词 ingratiate:

1. gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts

1. She quickly sought to ingratiate herself with the new administration.
   她很快就试图使她自己获得新政府的欢心
2. It was sickening to watch young Stevenson trying to ingratiate himself with the professor, knowing as we did how much the old man detested and despised him.
   看到小斯蒂文森低三下四地讨好教授实在是恶心，更何况我们都知道那老头是多么地厌恶和鄙视他。

in.gra.ti.ate

v.tr.（及物动词）
in.gra.ti.at.ed,in.gra.ti.at.ing,in.gra.ti.ates
To bring (oneself, for example) into the favor or good graces of another, especially by deliberate effort:
逢迎：使（如自己）获得别人的欢心或恩惠，尤指刻意如此：
例句：
She quickly sought to ingratiate herself with the new administration.
她很快就试图使她自己获得新政府的欢心

来源：
Perhaps from Italian ingraziare
可能源自 意大利语 ingraziare
from in grazia [into favor]
源自 in grazia [得欢心]
from Latin in gr3tiam
源自 拉丁语 in gr3tiam
in [in] * see in- 2
in [在…里] *参见 in-2
gr3tiam [accusative of] gr3tia [favor] from gr3tus [pleasing] * see g wer…- 2
gr3tiam [] gr3tia的宾格 [欢心] 源自 gr3tus [使…高兴] *参见 g wer…- 2

【引伸】
ingra.tia.tion
n.（名词）
ingra.tiato.ry