英语释义

• not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance

• free from pomp or affectation;

  "comfortable but modest cottages"

  "a simple rectangular brick building"

  "a simple man with simple tastes"

• marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself;

  "a modest apartment"

  "too modest to wear his medals"

• humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness;

  "meek and self-effacing"

• free from ostentation or pretension;

  "the restrained elegance of the room"

• limited in size or scope;

  "a small business"

  "a newspaper with a modest circulation"

  "small-scale plans"

  "a pocket-size country"

• not large but sufficient in size or amount;

  "a modest salary"

  "modest inflation"

  "helped in my own small way"

• low or inferior in station or quality;

  "a humble cottage"

  "a lowly parish priest"

  "a modest man of the people"

  "small beginnings"

片语

Modest Doll谦虚的娃娃

odest谦虚的

modest appellation谦称

modest people谦逊的人

No modest没有谦虚

modest about她对自己得奖非常谦虚

inobtrusive谦虚的；不冒失的；不惹眼的

modest capacity容量适度

modest a(Modesta)人名；(俄)莫杰斯塔

Build modest身材适中

Modest Siheyuan普通四合院

英汉例句

• a one-night stay in a modest hotel costs around ￡3

  在普通的旅店里过一夜要花费约35英镑。

• personally he was quiet, modest and unobtrusive.

  私下里他文静、谦虚、不事张扬。

• naturally, modest measures are only a start.

  当然温和措施只是一个开端。

• with a modest satisfaction, he would tell that he had thought a bit himself.

  他带着谦逊的满足告诉我他自己就动过一点脑筋思索过。

• even the relatively modest sum of ￡50,000 now seems beyond his reach.

  现在即使是相对来说并不算多的5万英镑对他来说也是遥不可及的。

• he could then present an estimated price tag for phasing in these changes over time, and demonstrate that the costs would be modest compared to the enormous benefits.

  此外，随着时间的推移，他可以提出逐步适应这些变化的估计标价，证明与巨大利益相比，这些费用终归会是适度的。

• at this modest length, any reader can work through the book and do all the examples.

  在这种篇幅适中的情况下，任何读者都能轻松看完，并且做完全部示例。

• modest controls may be legitimate in the first case, but not the second, he says.

  他说，适度的控制或许在第一种情形时是合法的，但却不适用于第二种。

• there has been a modest upturn in most parts of the industry.

  该行业的绝大部分领域都出现了一定程度的好转。

• on both sides of the road rubble towers over his modest parish car.

  吴神父开着他那辆不大的教区汽车，路旁堆满了高高的瓦砾。

• swiss unemployment rose to the still modest rate of 0.7%.

  瑞士的失业率上升到了0.7%，这个百分比仍然不算太高。

• by providing support to the palestinians, and offering an opening however modest the israelis, the arab states could have the same impact.

  阿拉伯国家通过对巴勒斯坦人的支持，通过向温和的以色列人提供一个开端，可以造成同样的影响。

• the result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.

  结果显示舆论出现一定程度的右倾。

• besides some modest tax and benefit cuts, it will sell some of the state’s extensive shareholdings and seek to inject more choice and competition into sweden’s large public sector.

  除了对税收和福利做出适度的削减外，政府还会部分出售国家持有的大量股权，并设法为瑞典庞大的公共部门注人更多的选择和竞争。

• he was a modest man who empowered his team and his staff to do the work through a sophisticated kind of leadership.

  他是一个谦虚的人，他通过一种老练的领导手段支持他的团队和他的职员开展工作。

• however, it had to face political constraints in iran and iraq, whereas in the caspian basin could only succeed in finishing several projects in its own modest way.

  然而，土耳其也面临伊朗、伊拉克政治上的约束力，依靠温和的外交手段在滨里海盆地成功完成仅有几个项目。

• but in almost all cases they carry only a modest risk for the disease.

  但是在几乎所有的病例中，这些变异只是带来了适度的危险性。

• but there was just a modest effect on other common teen problems.

  但是对于其他常见的青少年问题只是有一个适度的影响。

• he was too modest to claim the credit.

  他太谦逊，不愿意邀功。

• although one of china’s richest men, he dresses inexpensively and lives in a modest beijing apartment.

  尽管作为中国最富有的人之一，他穿着朴素，住在北京一所不大的公寓里。

• thus the garden was of modest but reasonable size, as is well shown in loggan’s print of the college in 1690. this was newton’s garden.

  这样这个花园虽然不大，但也有了合理的规模，正像在1690年洛根关于学院的版画很好地显示的那样，这是牛顿的花园。

• as a matter of fact, i find she is very modest and always says that she did not study hard in college and her english is extremely poor.

  我其实觉得她很谦虚，老是说她大学在混日子，英语也学得很差，可是我就算没有见过她，我也觉得她的外语肯定不会差的。

• how can this gap between the modest expectations of the originators with respect to the impact of the agile manifesto and its actual attractiveness be explained?

  发起者对于敏捷宣言会产生的影响预期不大，但它实际的吸引力如此巨大，这之间的差距怎么解释呢？

• a new and modest view of space, indeed, from the country that brought you the apollo programme.

  这样一个新的、谦逊的太空观念正是来自那个曾经带来阿波罗计划的国家。

• this finding is similar to observations in thailand, where a seawall at patong beach caused a splash-up of the tsunami wave and buildings behind it only suffered modest structural damages.

  这个发现和在泰国观察到的是相似的，在那一个在巴东海滩的防波堤引起了一个海啸波的溅起，并且其后的建筑物只受到了适度的结构破坏。

• timothy geithner: "i think it would make the crisis we just went through look modest in comparison.

  盖特纳：「我认为，相比之下，它将使我们刚刚经历的危机看起来很是温和。」

相似词

bashful(Bashful)人名；(英)巴什富尔

shy投；畏缩；惊退；厌恶

unpretentious谦逊的；含蓄的；不炫耀的；不铺张的

humble使谦恭；轻松打败（尤指强大的对手）；低声下气

simple简单的；单纯的；天真的

quiet使平息；安慰

plain平原；无格式；朴实无华的东西

humble使谦恭；轻松打败（尤指强大的对手）；低声下气

shy投；畏缩；惊退；厌恶

chaste(Chaste)人名；(法)沙斯特

diffident羞怯的；缺乏自信的；谦虚谨慎的

retiring退休；退职；退役；就寝；退庭（retire 的现在分词）

quiet使平息；安慰

bashful(Bashful)人名；(英)巴什富尔

unpretentious谦逊的；含蓄的；不炫耀的；不铺张的

meek(Meek)人名；(英)米克

plain平原；无格式；朴实无华的东西

coy腼腆的；忸怩作态的；怕羞的

unassuming谦逊的；不装腔作势的；不出风头的

simple简单的；单纯的；天真的

相反词

arrogant自大的，傲慢的

immodest不谦虚的；不庄重的

pretentious自命不凡的；炫耀的；做作的

arrogant自大的，傲慢的

gorgeous华丽的，灿烂的；极好的

magnificent高尚的；壮丽的；华丽的；宏伟的

immodest不谦虚的；不庄重的

proud(Proud)人名；(英)普劳德

luxurious奢侈的；丰富的；放纵的；特级的