| 词组 | laudable, laudatory |
| 释义 | laudable, laudatory Usage commentators are concerned about maintaining the distinction between these words, which is that laudable means "deserving praise; praiseworthy" ("laudable attempts to help the poor") and laudatory means "giving praise; praiseful" ("a laudatory book review"). This distinction is a real one. Aside from a 15th-century citation in the OED, the only evidence we have seen of laudable used in place of laudatory is a single passage cited by Fowler 1926. Use of laudatory in place of laudable is somewhat more common, according to our evidence: • Librarians are alert to ... the need to re-allocate certain routine chores to others less qualified; this is laudatory —Mary Lee Bundy & Paul Wasserman, College & Research Libraries, January 1968 • ... both take pay cuts in order to do what really makes them happy. This laudatory stance fails to save either man from banality —Philippe Van Rjndt, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 3 July 1983 But this use is still quite rare, and it cannot be regarded as standard. |
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