complimentary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 称赞的，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In return for this complimentary address, a very gruff hoarse voice bade Mr Groves 'hold his noise and light a candle.'
-- These complimentary expressions were uttered in a somewhat absent and distracted manner; for the unfortunate lawyer, besides having a bad cold in his head, had got wet in coming, and would have willingly borne some pecuniary sacrifice if he could have shifted his present raw quarters to a warm room, and dried himself at a fire.
-- Nothing but the respect and obligation I owe to you, sir 'As it was plain that Sampson was bent on a complimentary harangue, unless he received a timely interruption, Mr Quilp politely tapped him on the crown of his head with the little saucepan, and requested that he would be so obliging as to hold his peace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The short, rather plump wife of a starved grocer, and the mother of two children withal, this lieutenant had already earned the complimentary name of The Vengeance.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rose to shake hands--a firm, competent grasp--and to cry in her glorious contralto, "Dr. Tubbs is so complimentary only because he knows that otherwise I wouldn't give him his afternoon tea.
-- When Sondelius perceived this grudgingness he tried to overcome it by being more noisy and complimentary and enthusiastic than ever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried the little creature, making a whisk athim with the handkerchief with which she was wiping her face,'and don't be impudent!But I give you my word and honour I wasat Lady Mithers's last week- there's a woman!How she wears!andMithers himself came into the room where I was waiting for her-there's a man!How he wears!and his wig too, for he's had it theseten years- and he went on at that rate in the complimentary line,that I began to think I should be obliged to ring the bell.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She read it to him, just as he liked to have any thing read, slowly and distinctly, and two or three times over, with ex-planations of every part as she proceeded and he was very much pleased, and, as she had foreseen, especially struck with the complimentary conclusion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My construction even of their simple meaning was not very correct, for I read "wife of the Above" as a complimentary reference to my father's exaltation to a better world; and if any one of my deceased relations had been referred to as "Below," I have no doubt I should have formed the worst opinions of that member of the family.
-- He came to the rescue at this point, and said in a consolatory and complimentary voice, "Camilla, my dear, it is well known that your family feelings are gradually undermining you to the extent of making one of your legs shorter than the other."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know what this jolly old Jaundiced Jail,' Tom had paused to find a sufficiently complimentary and expressive name for the parental roof, and seemed to relieve his mind for a moment by the strong alliteration of this one, 'would be without you.'
-- Not a servile one these Hands will never do that!Lord bless you, sir, you'll never catch them at that, if they have been with you twenty years! and, as a complimentary toilet for Mrs. Sparsit, tucked his neckerchief ends into his waistcoat.
-- 'If you're in the complimentary line, you'll get on here, for you'll meet with no competition.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and presenting himself in his cook's cap, lighted the traveller up a steep and narrow staircase; the traveller carrying his own cloak and knapsack, and bidding the landlady good night with a complimentary reference to the pleasure of seeing her again to-morrow.
-- Miss Wade and the man then began to walk up and down; the man having the appearance of being extremely courteous and complimentary in manner; Miss Wade having the appearance of being extremely haughty.
-- The attention and distinction you have so impressively mentioned, Mrs General, as attaching to this confidence, are, I have no doubt, of the most complimentary and gratifying description; but they don't at all proceed from me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the rest of the day, he was shut up in the back kitchen, in company with a pump and a slice of bread; and at night, Mrs. Sowerberry, after making various remarks outside the door, by no means complimentary to the memory of his mother, looked into the room, and, amidst the jeers and pointings of Noah and Charlotte, ordered him upstairs to his dismal bed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was sorry for him, too, with that peculiar sorrow which finds something complimentary to itself in the misery of another.
-- She longed to be renowned like others, and read with avidity all the complimentary or critical comments made concerning others high in her profession.
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