放上去的是錢
天平空掉的那一邊，用錢來填。
adjective · C1
Used about money that is paid to someone who has been harmed, hurt, or has lost something, in order to make up for what they have suffered.
賠償的
核心畫面
Think of an old pair of scales. Something has been taken off one side — a loss, an injury, a day of rest that never came — so that side has dropped. Compensatory describes whatever you put on the empty side to bring the two back level. It does not undo what happened, and it is not a punishment for anyone. It is simply the weight that goes in the hole.
可以想成一副老式天平。有一邊被拿走了東西——一筆損失、一次受傷、一個沒放到的假——那一邊就垮了下去。compensa…更多收起
可以想成一副老式天平。有一邊被拿走了東西——一筆損失、一次受傷、一個沒放到的假——那一邊就垮了下去。compensatory 形容的，就是你放到空的那一邊、想把天平擺平的東西。它不會讓發生過的事消失，也不是在處罰誰。它只是填進缺口裡的那個重量。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the word as borrowed from French compensatoire, and by surface analysis as compensate + -ory. The ending -ory marks something that does the job named by the verb, so the word means, plainly, 'doing the work of making up for something'.
Wiktionary 說這個字借自法文 compensatoire，表面上也可以拆成 compensate（補償）＋ -ory（帶有…作用的）。-ory 表示「負責做那件事的」，所以字面就是「起補償作用的」。兩個意思都還牢牢站在這個字面上，差別只在補的是錢，還是別的東西。
Wiktionary via kaikki extract kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1410883950, entry 'compensatory': "Borrowed from French compensatoire. By surface analysis, compensate + -ory."
Two branches
放上去的是別的東西
同一個動作，只是放上天平的不再是錢：可能是一天假、一堂課、一個晚上的住宿。
adjective · C1
Meant to make up for something bad, missing, or unfair, so that its effect becomes smaller.
補償性的