And my daily absence from campus made it easier to portray me as an establishment backslapper gliding his way through the turmoil of the time .

我每天不在校园里也很容易让我被描绘成为校方的马屁精，趁着当时的动乱投机取巧。

Mr romney might not be a gregarious backslapper , it was asserted , but he could be trusted to perform a corporate-style turnaround on a country adrift .

有人断言，罗姆尼大概不是一个群居性的亲密朋友，但仍然可以信赖，让他在一个漂浮不定的国家，完成一个企业式的转变。