钻营

他暗通关节，钻营投机挤进了委员会。

He bribed himself onto the committee .

他到处钻营，只要能有所得。

He will crawl anywhere if he can gain something by it .

他宁愿清贫不苟且，不愿钻营以谋高官厚禄。

He prefers honest poverty to a high position obtained by questionable means .

问：社会真的是建立在野心及钻营上的吗？

Questioner : It is true that society is based on acquisitiveness and ambition ;

资产阶级政客们为了要在自己政党内确立有利地位而钻营策划。

The bourgeois politicians jockeyed about in order to establish advantageous positions within their party .

他确确实实就是英国人所说的‘投机钻营者’：一位老谋深算的企业家。

He was literally what the British call a ' wheeler-dealer ' – a wily entrepreneur .

在邻里间钻营名望和人气时，总是使用间接方式；

Whenever we do climb into local fame and notice , it is by indirect methods ;

不要钻营于利益之中，没有未来的考量，只有现在。

Look for no profit out of it , see no future in it , just the present .

野心常常把人们推上最卑鄙的职位；向上钻营同样要卑躬屈膝。

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping .

我不想听你那些为钻营功名富贵而设计出来的诈巧虚伪的论述。

I don 't want to hear your tricky and fictitious words designed for cheating of fame , honor , wealth and rank .

她是个精明油滑的女人，对她没有好处的事她是从来不做的，她总是竭力钻营，唯利是图。

She was a shrewed woman ; she never did a kindness without a good reason , and she always had an eye on the main chance .

今天，老挝人看起来都满足于他们所拥有的一切，即使老挝是世界上最穷的国家之一，大多数老挝人不太关心钻营敛财之道，也不关心现代化的种种发展。

Laotians today seem happy with what little they have - theirs is one of the poorest countries in the world - and largely unconcerned by the mucky business of making money , as well as many other aspects of modernity .