proteges of the powerful who stay with their benefactions like parasites
Related Translations:
清客相公: literary friends of officials [rich men] who help with conversation and advice
Example Sentences:
1.
Hey , l didn ' t say that . we ' re splitting it 喂，我可没说清客我们平摊！
2.
These claims are not without reason , yet when we examined the details of jiang ' s person and writings , we can actually find among his ci references to the emptiness and aimlessness of his life , in which he underwent inexpressible hardships , under circumstances beyond his control 这样的看法未尝无理，但细察姜夔其人其文，终身寥落的清客生涯，种种难以言宣的万不得已之情，其实在他的词作中时时隐现，只是历来论者多未深究而已。
3.
Doctors who made great fortunes out of dainty remedies for imaginary disorders that never existed , smiled upon their courtly patients in the ante - chambers of monseigneur . projectors who had discovered every kind of remedy for the little evils with which the state was touched , except the remedy of setting to work in earnest to root out a single sin , poured their distracting babble into any ears they could lay hold of , at the reception of monseigneur 用花哨的药物治疗并不存在的臆想的疾病而发了财的医生在大人的前厅里向仪态优雅的病人微笑为国家的小忧小患设计出形形色色的策略却连任何一桩罪恶也无法认真消除的清客，在大人的招待会上对他们抓得住的耳朵滔滔不绝地发出令人茫然的高论。
