If you flatter your mother a bit she might invite us all to dinner.
你如果多奉承你母亲几句话,说不定她会把我们全部请去吃饭。
If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
丸药不苦不会加糖衣。
As a shipbuilder, Cockerell was trying to find a solution to the problem of the wave resistance which wastes a good deal of a surface ship's power and limits its speed.