complement
complement 英 [ˈkɒmplɪment] 美 [ˈkɑmplɪment]
n. 补足;补语 vt. 补足
进行时:complementing 过去式:complemented 过去分词:complemented 第三人称单数:complements 名词复数:complements
- A complement is something that makes up a satisfying whole with something else. Those shiny red shoes you just bought complement your shiny red purse.
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- n. 补足;补语
- vt. 补足
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1. The excellent menu is complemented by a good wine list.
佳肴佐以美酒，堪称完美无缺。
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2. The team needs players who complement each other.
球队需要能够相互取长补短的队员。
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3. We've taken our full complement of trainees this year.
我们今年接收的实习生已满员。
- complement (n.) late 14c., "means of completing; that which completes; what is needed to complete or fill up," from Old French compliement "accomplishment, fulfillment" (14c., Modern French complément), from Latin complementum "that which fills up or completes," from complere "fill up," from com-, here probably as an intensive prefix (see com-), + plere "to fill" (from PIE root *pele- (1) "to fill").
- complement (v.) "make complete," 1640s, from complement (n.). Earlier in a now-obsolete sense of "exchange courtesies" (1610s), from complement (n.) in a 16c. sense "that which is added, not as necessary, but as ornamental," now going with compliment. Related: Complemented; complementing.
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