The singer was surrounded by the usual crowd of lackeys and hangers on.

那个歌手让那帮总溜须拍马、前呼後拥人给围住了。

During my colleagues, there are so many superexcellent ones, trickish ones, adulatory ones, who are doing better than me, and I have fallen to a walk-on.

同事中，能力卓越者、攻心计者、溜须拍马者，胜其数，自己现在已沦为一个跑龙套。