喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From French compliment, from Italian complimento, from Spanish cumplimiento, from cumplir 'to do what is proper'; doublet of complement.

借自法文，經義大利文來自西班牙文 cumplir「做得合乎禮數」。

Wiktionary

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」），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」。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

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同家族的字

n compliments

v complimented complimented complimenting compliments

意思相近

praisehonourkind wordtributegood wishesflattering remarkmark of respectregardscongratulateflatter

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。