Ingratiate

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–verb (used with object) 

to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, esp. by deliberate effort (usually fol. by with): He ingratiated himself [with] all the guests. 





　

Along the way, Charlie, whose talents seem at first confined [to] barking orders and being inconsiderate, is getting his edges buffed by Raymond's ingratiating eccentricities and [at]tachment [to] routine. 



Then Charlie learns by phone, in Tucumcari, N.M., that he's just lost $80,000 in a business deal, and pic's placid surface erupts in a bombast of music and camera tricks as he takes Raymond to the Las Vegas gaming tables to exploit his mathematical genius. Needless to say, it's a very successful idea. Raymond even learns a little about women, and in a charming scene with Cruise, learns how to dance. 



For most of its longish 140 minutes, "Rain Man" is limited by its subject - it's about getting to know a guy (Raymond) who can't respond or change except [by] the slightest degrees. Road segment often feels hastily, loosely written, with much extraneous screen time. By the last third, pic becomes quite moving as these two very isolated beings discover a common history and deep attachment.



buff

(用暗黃皮革等) 擦亮,擦淨

減低(力量), 減弱

bombast 

大話





cringe 

sycophantic 

unctuous

smarmy

that managed to be [clever] and [calculated] 

without the [smarmy] [pretension] of today's imitators.

fawn

He fawns [on] anyone in an influential [position].

a [fawn] is a very young deer.

a [faun] is a figure in Roman myth, half [man], half [goat], something like a [satyr]. (農牧之神,森林之神)



obsequious sycophantic

affront insult

effrontery shameless, impudence, presumption

He is polite to the point of [obsequiousness], 

not only to his church superiors, but even to the people he [torments].

I couldn’t forgive his [affront] to [of] his mother.

a sneak thief [ransacking] his own broken home for self-serving material

—and some critics at the Toronto film festival this year took Margot as a [scathing] matricidal [affront]. 

She then had the [effrontery] to ask a [favor]. 

Given the nature of the Inquisition, it seems unlikely such [effrontery] would have brought with [it] no consequences for Tomas and his retinue, as it does in the pic.

Tenuous