喜樂美語

From the word’s history

1548, from Latin congrātulātus, from congrātulor 'to wish joy', con- + grātulor, from grātus 'pleasing'.

借自拉丁文 congrātulor「同表歡喜」，來自 grātus。

Wiktionary

Picture turning to someone whose good news has just landed and saying so out loud — your gladness, delivered to them. The word is about the telling, not the feeling: you can be pleased for someone silently, but you have not congratulated them until it reaches them. Turn it and you get the second use, quietly saying it to yourself.

可以想成：有人剛剛有了好消息，你轉過去，把你的替他高興說出口。這個字的重點在「說出去」而不是「心裡有」——你可以默默替一個人開心，但要傳到他那裡，才算 congratulate。把這個動作轉向自己，就是第二種用法：在心裡對自己說一聲。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

congratulated congratulated congratulating congratulates

意思相近

praisecommendapplaudfelicitatepride yourselfpat yourself on the backtake pride

用法接近

complimentcheercelebratetoastbe proudfeel proudrejoicecount yourself lucky

意思相反

criticizeblamecondemnblame yourselfcriticize yourselfbeat yourself up

原始詞典資料2 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。

congratulateverb/kənˈɡɹæt͡ʃ.ʊˌleɪt/

  • 1

    To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for

    • Remind me to congratulate Dave and Lisa on their wedding.
    • We must congratulate Dave and Lisa on getting married.
  • 2

    To consider oneself fortunate in some matter.

    • I congratulated myself on the success of my plan.

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。