| 词组 | complement, compliment |
| 释义 | complement, compliment A very large number of usage books and handbooks, from the grade-school level up, warn against confusing complement and compliment. This is really a spelling problem, as your dictionary will demonstrate, since the two words share no meanings whatsoever, as either noun or verb. The evidence we have of the misspelling tends to be the use of the commoner compliment in place of complement: • The assignments and exercises were challenging and complimented points the instructor was making — quoted in New Yorker, 1 Nov. 1982 • To compliment the butter campaign, American Dairy Association has created new butter point-of-purchase materials —Eastern Milk Producer, April 1985 • ... a knowledge of the possibilities of their branching pattern, complimented by nerve dissection with fine instruments —Biological Abstracts, July 1954 A quick check of your dictionary should clear up any doubts about which spelling you need. The same caution applies to the adjectives complementary and complimentary. |
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