- 1值得稱讚的、可圈可點的
If something you did is creditable, people can honestly praise it. You did well enough. You deserve a nod. Though actually, it is not the same as brilliant, and it is not a loud cheer. Teachers, sports writers, and rather formal people like this word when they want to be kind and fair at the same time: a creditable drawing, a creditable attempt, a creditable third place. The work was decent; nobody should laugh; you can hold your head up. It is not a young street word. You meet it in school reports, newspapers, and slightly old-fashioned praise. Do not mix it with credible, which is about whether a story can be believed. A creditable performance can still be quite ordinary — just good enough that praise is fair.
組成credit + -able. Credit here is the older sense of honour, a good name you can add to. -able (from Latin -ābilis, through Old French and Middle English) makes an adjective: able to be put to your credit as something praiseworthy.
同家族的字
- creditthe older ‘good name / honour’ sense this is built from
- creditablythe adverb form
原始詞典資料3 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。
creditableadj/ˈkɹɛdɪtəbəl/
- 1
Credible or believable.
- Before receiving his testimony, the officer is required to ascertain from his own knowledge or by a creditable witness that he is a subscribing witness to the deed.
- A more creditable rumour concerned Valentino's hallmark killer glance ...
- 2
That brings credit or honour; respectable.
- The locomotive had been magnificently burnished at Norwich depot, with polished brasswork and red-painted coupling rods—all the more creditable, Dr. Allen adds, as it spent many months last winter in open store.
- 3
That can be assigned; assignable.
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。