compliment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 敬意, 赞扬; 问候; vt. 恭维; 称赞，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Frou-Frou's more nervous; he's stronger," said Vronsky, smiling at the compliment to his riding.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One, with a fan and some bits of paper, performed the graceful trick of the butterflies and the flowers; another traced in the air, with the odorous smoke of his pipe, a series of blue words, which composed a compliment to the audience; while a third juggled with some lighted candles, which he extinguished successively as they passed his lips, and relit again without interrupting for an instant his juggling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Peggotty was no less pleasedthan his nephew, though his modesty forbade him to claim apersonal compliment so vociferously.
-- He had a way of writhing when hewanted to express enthusiasm, which was very ugly; and whichdiverted my attention from the compliment he had paid myrelation, to the snaky twistings of his throat and body.
-- 'Some brothersare not loved over much; and some love- but help yourself,Copperfield!We'll drink the daisies of the field, in compliment toyou; and the lilies of the valley that toil not, neither do they spin, incompliment to me- the more shame for me!'
-- So have you, Trot, in somethings, though I can't compliment you always'; and here my auntshook her own at me, with an energy peculiar to herself.
-- I was preventedfrom disclaiming the compliment (if I should have done so, in anycase), by the entrance of Agnes, now ushered in by Mr. Micawber.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was invited to contribute any really good enigmas, charades, or conundrums that he might recollect; and she had the pleasure of seeing him most intently at work with his recol-lections; and at the same time, as she could perceive, most earnestly careful that nothing ungallant, nothing that did not breathe a compliment to the sex should pass his lips.
-- Perhaps she might have passed over more had his manners been flattering to Isabella's sister, but they were only those of a calmly kind brother and friend, without praise and without blindness; but hardly any degree of per-sonal compliment could have made her regardless of that greatest fault of all in her eyes which he sometimes fell into, the want of respectful forbearance towards her father.
-- 'Middling, my dear; I cannot compliment you.
-- The compliment was just returned, coldly and proudly; and, under indescribable irritation of spirits, she was then conveyed to Hartfield.
-- And Emma had the advantage of hearing her own silly compliment repeated twice over before the good old lady could comprehend it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would you have had me a woman of clay when you paid me that furthest, highest compliment a man can pay a woman telling her he loves her?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again he had made a graceful remark, the kind of compliment any gentleman would pay under suchcircumstances, but he did not mean a word of it.
-- "A compliment like that coming from sofamous a man as Captain Butler is appreciated."
-- And each time he came, a little package inhis hand and a compliment for her charm and beauty on his lips, she wilted.
-- "When I'm on my deathbed," she replied and smiled, thinking that there would always be men to compliment her,even if Rhett never did.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he could have known how nearly the compliment lost him his pupil, I doubt if he would have paid it.
-- If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil; he gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was presented to him, he gave me a close embrace, a compliment I could well have excused.
-- After some further discourse, which I then conjectured might relate to me, the two friends took their leaves, with the same compliment of striking each other's hoof; and the gray made me signs that I should walk before him; where-in I thought it prudent to comply, till I could find a better director.
-- One day, in discourse, my master, having heard me men-tion the nobility of my country, was pleased to make me a compliment which I could not pretend to deserve: 'that he was sure I must have been born of some noble family, because I far exceeded in shape, colour, and cleanliness, all the Yahoos of his nation, although I seemed to fail in strength and agility, which must be imputed to my different way of living from those other brutes; and besides I was not only endowed with the faculty of speech, but likewise with some rudiments of reason, to a degree that, with all his ac-quaintance, I passed for a prodigy.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ignorant and the giddy may embarrass such subjects with irrelevant fancies, and other absurdities that have no existence, properly viewed really no existence but it is no compliment to you to say, that you know better.
-- If the same annual compliment would be acceptable there, why, I see nothing to part us, unless you do.'
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