A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
📚 名句词汇解析
从本句名言中提取的重要词汇，帮助你深度理解这句话
n. 恭维;敬意;道贺，贺词;致意;
vt. 向…道贺;称赞;向…致意;
💡 com全部+pli满，填满+ment名词后缀→[让人]+分满足→恭维[别人]
"The manager paid her a compliment on her work."
经理赞扬了她的工作.
近义：laud, praise, joy, congratulate, eulogize, extol
反义：attack, recuse, reproach, batter, hammer, censure
n. 声明;（思想、观点、文章主题等的）表现;（文字）陈述;结算单;
vi. （英国）对儿童进行特殊教育评估认定;
vt. 申请（小孩）有特殊教育需要;
💡 state陈述+ment表名词→站着说话→声明立场
"His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings."
他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
近义：assertion, asseveration, manifestation, manifesto, attestation, averment
adj. 令人愉快的，惬意的;有礼貌的;同意的，接受的;适合的，一致的;
💡 agree同意+able形容词后缀→愉快的；适意的
"We spent a most agreeable day together."
我们在一起度过了非常愉快的一天。
近义：likeable, assenting, nice, personable, pleasant, pleasing
反义：antipathetic, ingrate, loathsome, offensive, rough, surly
n. 真理;真相，事实;忠实，忠诚;现实，现实性;
💡 tru相信，真实+th抽象名词 →事实，真理
"He adjured them to tell the truth."
他要求他们讲真话。
近义：honesty, reality, reliability, sooth, substantiality, truthfulness
反义：hypocrisy, imposture, meretriciousness, phoniness, spuriousness, truthlessness
n. 谄媚, 阿谀, 巴结
近义：praise, blandishment, blandishments, adulation, obsequiousness, servility
反义：homeliness, honesty, naivete, openheartedness, openness, outrightness
n. 不真实, 虚假, 谎言
近义：lie, ruse, story, fib
反义：honesty, reality, reliability, sooth, substantiality, truthfulness
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"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."