A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
赞美
Compliment
Everybody likes a compliment.
每个人都喜欢赞美。
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
只凭一句赞美的话我就可以充实地活上两个月。
I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet.
我有一双漂亮的脚,得到了很多称赞。
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
赞美就像隔着面纱接吻。
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
被信任是比被爱更大的赞美。
Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.
任何时候任何人模仿你,这都是极大的赞美。
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
有些人恭维人,就好像他们期待收到收据一样。
What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.
什么意思如果日日夜夜都能听到,那就是赞美。
It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.
有人说我拍女性电影。这不是赞美。
Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
坦率是一种恭维,它意味着平等。真正的朋友就是这么说的。
I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.
我经历了这么多,我很高兴发生了这样的事,这是一个很大的赞美。
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
除了真诚的赞美,我想我喜欢一个应得的和诚实的指责。
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It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
人们想用一些肤浅的方式赞美你,这很好,但我从来没有想过这可能是我被归类的方式。我想这总比被称为丑要好。
Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.
我们的两个最大的竞争对手已经调整了他们整个赛季的目标就是击败我们。当然,这是一个很大的赞美,他们如此积极地阻止我们,但面对如此接近的两场比赛是非常困难的。突然之间,三个奖杯变成了一个。
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
他娶了第二个妻子,这是对第一个妻子的最高敬意。他表示,作为一个结了婚的男人,她使他非常幸福,他希望有第二个妻子。
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
抽象绘画是抽象的。它面对你。前阵子有个评论家说我的画没有开头也没有结尾。他不是想恭维你,但确实是。
I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.
我接受赞美和建设性的批评。不是每个人都爱你。这是你作为一名球员的反应。我用这一切让我打得更好。
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
在我看来,作为一个演员,你能得到的最大的赞美就是让别人相信你就是那个角色。