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If something is commendable, it deserves praise. You use it for an action, an effort, or a quality — a commendable try, a commendable honesty — more often than for a person as a whole. It is a calm, slightly formal word: you are saying this is worthy of praise, not shouting that it is . It can even carry a small “though actually…”: the result may not be perfect, but the way someone did it still deserves respect. It comes from commend, to praise someone or to speak well of what they did.
值得稱讚的
組成commend + -able (“worthy of being praised”). From Latin commendabilis, from commendare (“to commend, to entrust”), from com- + mandare (“to put into someone’s hands”), from manus “hand” + dare “to put.”
同家族的字
- commendthe verb: to praise or speak well of
- commendationthe noun: praise, or an official note of praise
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
commendableadj/kəˈmɛndəbəl/
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Worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable, or meritorious.
- Thanks, i' faith; for silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.
- Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。