核心畫面
A compliment is a small gift of admiration handed to someone — most often in words ('your work looks great', 'nice haircut'), but sometimes in action. The whole word grows from this single move: you notice something good about a person and openly let them feel it.
可以想成：compliment 是一份遞給對方的「欣賞小禮物」——最常見的是一句話（「你做得真好」「髮型很好看」），…更多收起
可以想成：compliment 是一份遞給對方的「欣賞小禮物」——最常見的是一句話（「你做得真好」「髮型很好看」），但有時是一個動作。整個字都從這個動作長出來：你注意到對方身上某個好的地方，並讓對方明白地感受到。名詞講那份禮物本身，動詞講「把這份欣賞送出去」。原始詞典資料5 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。
complimentnoun詞源 1/ˈkɑmpləmənt/
- 1
An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
- pay someone a compliment
- […] I met him With customary compliment; when he, Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and So leaves me to consider what is breeding That changeth thus his manners.
- 2
Complimentary language; courtesy, flattery.
- He told the Captain, He was heartily sorry for his Misfortunes; tho’ in my Opinion that was nothing but a Compliment: For, as I found afterwards, he was more brutish, and dishonest, than most of the other Kings on the Island […]
- This accomplished man condescended to think of a young girl, and take the pains to talk to her, not with absurd compliment, but with an appeal to her understanding, and sometimes with instructive correction.
complimentverb詞源 2/ˈkɑmpləmənt/
- 1
To pay a compliment (to someone); to express a favourable opinion (of someone).
- […] She transferr'd the curs'd Advice, / That Monarchs ſhould their inward Soul diſguise, / Diſſemble, and command; be falſe, and wiſe; / By ignominous Arts for ſervile Ends / Should compliment their Foes, and ſhun their Friends.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。