名詞 kudos:

1. an expression of approval and commendation
   同義詞：praise, congratulations, extolment

1. She did most of the work but all the kudos went to him.
   工作大部分是她做的，可是榮譽(yù)都?xì)w他了。

ku.dos

n.（名詞）
Acclaim or praise for exceptional achievement.
名聲，威信：對杰出成就所作的稱贊或頌揚(yáng)

來源：
Greek [magical glory]
希臘語 [神奇的榮耀]

Kudos is one of those words like congeries that look like pluralsbut are etymologically singular:correctness requiresKudos is (not are ) due her for her brilliant work on the score. Some writers have tried to defend the use ofkudos with a plural verb, or even the introduction of a new singular form ofkudo, on the grounds that these innovations follow the pattern whereby the English words pea and cherry were re-formed from nouns ending in-s that were thought to be plural. Perhaps the singularkudo would have to be acknowledged as a legitimate formation if it came to be widely adopted in the popular language in the way that cherry and pea have. But at presentkudos is still regarded as a slightly pretentious variant for praise and can scarcely claim to be part of the linguistic folkways of the community.When writers reach for an unfamiliar Greek word for the sake of elegance,it is fair to ask that they get it right.Still, it is worth notingthat even people who are carefulto treat the word syntactically as a singularoften pronounce it as if it were a plural:etymology would require that the final consonant be pronounced as a voiceless (s),rather than as a voiced (z).
Kudos 和 congeries 那些詞一樣， 看上去好象是復(fù)數(shù)，但從詞源上看是單數(shù)：因此正確的用法應(yīng)該是Kudos is （不是 are ） due her for her brilliant work on the score 。 許多作者為kudos 后跟動詞復(fù)數(shù)形式的做法辯護(hù)， 他們甚至發(fā)明了一個新的詞kudo 作為該詞的單數(shù)形式，他們這樣做是以英語單詞 pea 和 cherry 的形成模式為依據(jù)的， 這些詞都是從原先結(jié)尾帶-s 的復(fù)數(shù)形式名詞演化而來。 kudo 這種單數(shù)形式只有在象 cherry 和 pea 這樣為大眾語言所普遍接受之后才能被認(rèn)可為一種正確的形式。 但是現(xiàn)在kudos 這個詞仍被看作是 praise 這個詞稍稍有些做作的變體， 還很難成為社群的習(xí)慣用語的一部份。當(dāng)一個作家為了行文的優(yōu)雅用一個生僻的希臘詞的時候，他應(yīng)該正確地使用它。但是值得注意的是，即使是那些非常仔細(xì)的人，他們在句子中把它用作單數(shù)，但在讀的時候卻讀成復(fù)數(shù)的形式：根據(jù)詞源來看，這個詞最后一個輔音應(yīng)該發(fā)成清輔音（s），而不是濁輔音（z）