Compliment

(noun.) a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration.

(verb.) say something to someone that expresses praise; 'He complimented her on her last physics paper'.

(verb.) express respect or esteem for.

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• It is quite too transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A very proper compliment! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Aunt March likes to have us pay her the compliment of coming in style, and making a formal call. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Stimulated either by this compliment, or by her burning indignation, that illustrious woman then added, 'Let him meet it if he can! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He seemed to consider himself hardly less indebted to me, than to Mr. Micawber; which I consider (as I told him) quite a compliment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Mr. Pickwick acknowledged the compliment, and cordially shook hands with the stout gentleman in the top-boots. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• My compliments to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Next day, boy calls: “Very sorry--his mistake-- immense business--great many parcels to deliver--Mr. Sawyer's compliments--late Nockemorf. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He sat looking at her, and did not rise to pay her any compliments, leaving that to others, now that his admiration was deepened. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The fact is, neither English men nor women pay each other compliments at all—at least, it's not supposed to be good form. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Hence she had her share of compliments and polite attentions. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Laurie's a nice boy and I like him, and I won't have any sentimental stuff about compliments and such rubbish. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Maurice says English gentlemen do not pay ladies compliments. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He knew as well as I did that it was just as likely, at that time of year, I was going down there whaling; but I felt complimented, too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She gave her evidence in the gamest way, and was highly complimented by the Bench, and cheered right home to her lodgings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• At two o'clock he bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had written, and locked the door of the office after me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Go to my father if you want to be complimented. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• You complimented me two minutes since on my powerful mind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I am accustomed to be complimented by strangers as the--ha--Father of the Marshalsea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Captain Keeldar was complimented on his taste; the compliment charmed him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• What answer was possible to such stupid complimenting? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mr. Rochester led in Miss Ingram; she was complimenting him on his acting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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