動詞 ingratiate:

1. gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts

1. She quickly sought to ingratiate herself with the new administration.
   她很快就試圖使她自己獲得新政府的歡心
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討好教授實在是惡心，更何況我們都知道那老頭是多么地厭惡和鄙視他。

in.gra.ti.ate

v.tr.（及物動詞）
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）獲得別人的歡心或恩惠，尤指刻意如此：
例句：
She quickly sought to ingratiate herself with the new administration.
她很快就試圖使她自己獲得新政府的歡心

來源：
Perhaps from Italian ingraziare
可能源自 意大利語 ingraziare
from in grazia [into favor]
源自 in grazia [得歡心]
from Latin in gr3tiam
源自 拉丁語 in gr3tiam
in [in] * see in- 2
in [在…里] *參見 in-2
gr3tiam [accusative of] gr3tia [favor] from gr3tus [pleasing] * see g wer…- 2
gr3tiam [] gr3tia的賓格 [歡心] 源自 gr3tus [使…高興] *參見 g wer…- 2

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