| 词组 | compliment |
| 释义 | compliment /ˈkɒmpləmənt, ˈkɒmplɪmənt $ ˈkɑːm-/ noun a remark or action that shows you admire someone or somethingadjectivesa great/big/huge compliment He said he loved my paintings, which was a great compliment.the highest/the ultimate compliment (=the best thing you can say or do) The highest compliment you can pay an actor is to say they don’t look as if they are acting.a nice compliment She got a lot of nice compliments on her new hairstyle.an extravagant compliment (=a compliment that seems too great to be sincere) He paid all the actors and actresses extravagant compliments.an unexpected compliment John blushed at the unexpected compliment.a backhanded compliment BrE a left-handed compliment AmE (=something that someone says which is nice and not nice at the same time) The reviewer said it was better than his last two films, which was rather a backhanded compliment.verbspay/give sb a compliment He was always paying her compliments.get/receive a compliment The exhibition has received a lot of compliments from the public.accept a compliment (=show that you are pleased to have been given a compliment) She accepted his compliment graciously.mean sth as a compliment When I said she’d lost weight, I meant it as a compliment.take sth as a compliment (=be pleased about it, even though it may not have been meant as a compliment) She said he was aggressive, and he took it as a compliment.fish for compliments (=try to make someone say something nice about you) When she asked if I liked her dress, she was obviously fishing for compliments.prepositionsa compliment on sth I have had a lot of compliments on my cooking.a compliment to sb It’s a compliment to us that they are training so hard to beat us. |
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