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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes," replied Tom Austin, "if all the Patagonians are cut after the same pattern, I must compliment Patagonia."
-- "Well, my Lord, and you too, captain," returned Ayrton, "allow a sailor who knows what a ship is worth, to compliment you on yours."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said this to pay a compliment to the son of Peleus, and Achilles answered, 'Antilochus, you shall not have praised me to no purpose; I shall give you an additional half talent of gold.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the contrary, Heyward thought the manner of the young Mohican was disdainful, if not a little fierce, and that he suppressed pas-sions that were ready to explode, as much in compliment to the listeners, as from the deference he usually paid to his white associate.
-- 'The sinews and bones of a man carry me through it all,' said the hunter, surveying his muscular limbs with a sim-plicity that betrayed the honest pleasure the compliment afforded him; 'there are larger and heavier men to be found in the settlements, but you might travel many days in a city before you could meet one able to walk fifty miles without stopping to take breath, or who has kept the hounds with-in hearing during a chase of hours.
-- The Frenchman bit his lip, and fastened his eyes keenly on the other as if to read his thoughts; then, with a readi-ness peculiar to himself, he continued, as if assenting to the truth of an enumeration which quite doubled his army: 'It is a poor compliment to the vigilance of us soldiers, monsieur, that, do what we will, we never can conceal our numbers.
-- The other acknowledged the pacific compliment by a ges-ture of the hand, and remained silent.
-- I am the man, however, that got the name of Nathaniel from my kin; the compliment of Hawk-eye from the Delawares, who live on their own river; and whom the Iroquois have presumed to style the 'Long Rifle', without any warranty from him who is most concerned in the matter.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "After all, it was rather a compliment she was paying you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beset by these opposing considerations, Mrs Jiniwin admitted the powers of insinuation, but denied the right to govern, and with a timely compliment to the stout lady brought back the discussion to the point from which it had strayed.
-- To this compliment Miss Sally replied, that she had a relish for the amusement, and had no intention to forego its gratification.
-- But Kit's mother, again wouldn't anybody have supposed she had come of a good stock and been a lady all her life!There she was, quite ready to receive them, with a display of tea-things that might have warmed the heart of a china-shop; and little Jacob and the baby in such a state of perfection that their clothes looked as good as new, though Heaven knows they were old enough!Didn't she say before they had sat down five minutes that Barbara's mother was exactly the sort of lady she expected, and didn't Barbara's mother say that Kit's mother was the very picture of what she had expected, and didn't Kit's mother compliment Barbara's mother on Barbara, and didn't Barbara's mother compliment Kit's mother on Kit, and wasn't Barbara herself quite fascinated with little Jacob, and did ever a child show off when he was wanted, as that child did, or make such friends as he made!
-- There is no doubt that Mr Brass intended some compliment or other; and it has been argued with show of reason that he would have said Buffon, but made use of a superfluous vowel.
-- As he paid this compliment to the merit of the absent charmer, Mr Brass came to a halt; looking doubtfully towards the light, and over his shoulder.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wondered that Lucy's spirits could be so very much elevated by the civility of Mrs. Ferrars; that her interest and her vanity should so very much blind her as to make the attention which seemed only paid her because she was NOT ELINOR, appear a compliment to herself or to allow her to derive encouragement from a preference only given her, because her real situation was unknown.
-- Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sees but one object of supreme compliment in this world, and that is herself.
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