表达 “bow and scrape” 用来表示某人过于礼貌或对他人表现出过分的关注或尊重。它常用来描述某个人在与重要人士交往时，“点头哈腰，过分谦恭” 的举动。

• Look at him bowing and scraping to the bosses! He’s such a sucker I hope he doesn’t get promoted.
  瞧他向老板们点头哈腰的样子！他真是个马屁精，我希望他可不要被提拔。
• She thinks she’s so important now. She expects everyone to bow and scrape to her all day.
  她觉得她现在特别重要。她希望所有人整天都对着她鞠躬作揖。
• The hotel staff were really attentive, almost too attentive! In fact, I felt a bit uncomfortable as they bowed and scraped to us throughout our stay.
  这家酒店的工作人员们真的很用心，甚至有些过于体贴了！在我们住店期间，他们一直对我们点头哈腰的，这让我感到有点不自在。