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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A singular world, I would say, sir,' pursued Mrs. Sparsit; after acknowledging the compliment with a drooping of her dark eyebrows, not altogether so mild in its expression as her voice was in its dulcet tones; 'as regards the intimacies we form at one time, with individuals we were quite ignorant of, at another.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is it a compliment to ask you if you would do me the honour, sir, to ''Thank you,' returned Arthur.
-- Whoever had paid him the compliment, he very readily accepted the compliment with his compliments, and there was an end of it.
-- Don't compliment me, if you please.'
-- Mr Sparkler referred to his pulse again, and put himself through some severe mental discipline before he replied:'Fellers referring to my Governor expression not my own occasionally compliment my Governor in a very handsome way on being immensely rich and knowing perfect phenomenon of Buyer and Banker and that but say the Shop sits heavily on him.
-- There was no denying that the thing was a compliment to Mr Merdle, and was not a bad thing for Edmund if he liked it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I never saw such a girl!You don't know a compliment when you get it,' said Meg, with the air of a young lady who knew all about the matter.
-- We should like to know him, and it's only a proper compliment to you.'
-- Aunt March likes to have us pay her the compliment of coming in style, and making a formal call.
-- She blushed with pleasure, but somehow the compliment did not satisfy her like the blunt praises he used to give her at home, when he promenaded round her on festival occa-sions, and tole her she was 'altogether jolly', with a hearty smile and an approving pat on the head.
-- Aunt Amy was as yet only a name to them, Aunt Beth soon faded into a pleasantly vague memory, but Aunt Dodo was a living reality, and they made the most of her, for which compliment she was deeply grateful.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pay this particular compliment to Queequeg, because he treated me with so much civility and consideration, while I was guilty of great rudeness; staring at him from the bed, and watching all his toilette motions; for the time my curiosity getting the better of my breeding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A weakness on his part, which affords the narrative an opportunity of relieving the reader from suspense, in behalf of the two young pupils of the Merry Old Gentleman; and of recording-- That when the Dodger, and his accomplished friend Master Bates, joined in the hue-and-cry which was raised at Oliver's heels, in consequence of their executing an illegal conveyance of Mr. Brownlow's personal property, as has been already described, they were actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves; and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted Englishman, so, I need hardly beg the reader to observe, that this action should tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men, in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound-judging philosophers have laid down as the main-springs of all Nature's deeds and actions: the said philosophers very wisely reducing the good lady's proceedings to matters of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling.
-- Unembellished by any violence of gesticulation, this might have seemed no very high compliment to the lady's charms; but, as Mr. Bumble accompanied the threat with many warlike gestures, she was much touched with this proof of his devotion, and protested, with great admiration, that he was indeed a dove.
-- Now, the fact was that the excellent doctor had never acted upon anything but impulse all through his life, and it was no bad compliment to the nature of the impulses which governed him, that so far from being involved in any peculiar troubles or misfortunes, he had the warmest respect and esteem of all who knew him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you not think it would be a proper compliment to the place?'
-- 'It is a compliment which I never pay to any place if I can avoid it.'
-- 'It is a rule with me, that a person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.' 'That will not do for a compliment to Darcy, Caroline,' cried her brother, 'because he does NOT write with ease.
-- When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself and yet what is there so very laudable in a pre-cipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?'
-- 'I am exceedingly gratified,' said Bingley, 'by your con-verting what my friend says into a compliment on the sweetness of my temper.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I met with one piece of gratitude indeed, which I did not expect; and this was, that the master of the ship, whom I had so happily delivered, and by the same means saved the ship and cargo, having given a very handsome account to the owners of the manner how I had saved the lives of the men and the ship, they invited me to meet them and some other merchants concerned, and all together made me a very handsome compliment upon the subject, and a present of almost 200 pounds sterling.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.
-- Mama says HE was in love with your sister too. I assure you it was a great compliment if he was, for he hardly ever falls in love with any body."
-- Elinor blushed for the insincerity of Edward's future wife, and replied, "This compliment would effectually frighten me from giving any opinion on the subject had I formed one.
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