recommend

Compared meaning: to say something is good (verb).

比较义项：推荐、建议某事物或某人很好、合适（动词）。

• recommend 本词

  The everyday, neutral word for suggesting something or someone is good; used in casual conversation and writing, with very broad collocations (recommend a book, a restaurant, a candidate).

  recommend是日常、中性的词，用于表示某物或某人很好，适用范围很广（推荐一本书、一家餐厅、一位候选人），口语和书面语都常用。

  Can you recommend a good restaurant near the station?

  你能推荐车站附近的一家好餐厅吗？

• commend

  A more formal, literary word; often means to recommend something to someone's attention or entrust it to their judgment, and appears mainly in official or written contexts, not casual speech.

  commend更正式、更书面，常表示把某事物郑重地推荐给某人考虑，或把某事托付给对方评判，多用于正式或公文语境，很少用于日常口语。

  The committee commended the proposal to the board for approval.

  委员会将该提案郑重推荐给董事会审批。

Recommend and commend both mean to say something is good, but recommend is the everyday, neutral word. Commend is more formal and literary, often meaning to suggest something for consideration, and appears mainly in official writing. Not compared: commend's common meaning, "to praise."

这两个词在“推荐”这一意义上意思相近，但commend更正式、更书面，常用于郑重地把某事物推荐给他人考虑，或带有“呈交、托付”的意味；recommend则是口语和书面语中最常用、最中性的说法。这里不比较commend更常见的“表扬、称赞”义项（如称赞某人工作出色）。