英语释义

• formality and propriety of manner

• freedom from vanity or conceit

片语

modesty theory端庄理论

humbleness谦逊；卑贱；粗鄙

Feigned Modesty假谦虚

modesty y谦逊

epistemological modesty认识论的谦逊

Modesty Maxim谦虚準则

modesty placket谦虚筒

TRUE MODESTY真实的谦虚

humility谦卑，谦逊

criminal modesty刑法谦抑

英汉例句

• no one likes a show-off, but false modesty can be a big turn-off too.

  没有一个人喜欢炫耀的人，但是虚伪的谦虚则更讨人厌。

• modesty and humility are wonderful, but they shouldn「t keep you from taking pride in your own accomplishments.

  谦逊和谦卑是好的品德，但是它们不应该阻止你为自己的成就感到骄傲。

• there」s a great deal of modesty and diffidence in my world.

  在我的世界里，有着许多谦逊和缺乏自信。

• sadly, his modesty prevailed. he concentrated instead on lobbying for speedy and generous expansion of the eu to the east, most recently croatia.

  只是，他的谦逊占了上峰，转而投身于游说让欧盟快速而优雅地向东延伸，最近已拓展到了克罗地亚。

• modesty is a sweet quality. except, of course, in a recession.

  谦逊是一种良好的品质。当然，情绪低落时不算在内。

• as conceit makes one lag behind, so modesty helps one make progress.

  骄傲使人落后, 谦虚使人进步.

• these traits require a degree of modesty scarce among those ambitious enough to clamber to the top.

  这些品质需要一定程度的谦逊，而这在那些野心勃勃、一心往上爬的人中很是少见。

• my sister, in turn, would be amazed with both the depth and excitement of my experience, as well as my modesty in thinking of the stories as nothing special.

  而我的妹妹，反过来会惊奇于我那既有深度又令人兴奋的经历，而同时我在脑海里谦逊地想着这些故事根本没什么特别。

• 「your modesty is a cover for your overweening conceit,」 she said.

  「你表面谦虚，骨子里目中无人。」她说道。

• 「we want to instill in them a sense of modesty and a sense of community,」 said school board trustee gloria pena.

  得州学校理事会成员皮纳指出：“我们希望向他们慢慢灌输谦逊的品质和团体意识。

• modesty forbade me from mentioning that my novel had been published.

  我不好意思说我的小说已经出版了.

• her modesty is all put on; at heart she is very vain.

  她的谦逊全是假装的, 内心里她是很虚荣的.

• you and i both know that most people will deny their beauty, expressing what they feel is modesty or humility.

  我们都知道绝大部分人都否认自己的美丽，这表示他们谦虚或谦卑。

• industry and modesty are the chief factors of his success.

  勤奋和谦虚是他成功的主要因素.

• other characteristics which raters evaluated were the amount of clothing worn versus modesty and physical presentation.

  另一项特征可以从衣服磨损来评估他们的谦逊和和体育表现。

• the girl flushed from modesty when the man praised her appearance.

  那男人夸奖这姑娘长得漂亮时,她羞得脸红了.

• though modesty be a virtue , yet bashfulness is a vice.

  尽管谦虚是一种美德，但害羞就成了缺点。

• this sentiment of modesty jibed so perfectly with washington’s private letters that it could not have been feigned: he wondered whether he was fit for the post, so unlike anything he had ever done.

  华盛顿谦逊的态度和他的私人信件完全一致，所以这肯定不是故作姿态。他只是不确定自己是不是能够胜任这一职位，因为他从来没有从事过类似的工作。

• only one country seems to have the necessary mixture of wealth, generosity, internationalism, optimism and modesty required to pull it off.

  只有一个国家似乎拥有能成功的那些必须的东西，财富、慷慨、国际化、乐观和谦虚。

• a repugnant form of false modesty somehow the winners always end up pulling out some chicken scratch speech written on a lottery ticket or coaster.

  有些获奖者总是错误地表现自己的谦虚，当众拿出一张奖券或者杯子垫，上面写着蛛蛛爬般的感言。

• at that age the mind refuses to admit that its greatest pride is in its power to understand, to accept, to respect; and that modesty is the best means of enlarging its domain.

  在那样的年纪里，心里不肯承认最强烈的自豪感乃在于他有去了解，去接受，去尊重的能力；并且谦虚谨慎、虚心好学是使他进步的最好方式。

• modesty is a kind of virtue.

  谦虚是一种美德.

相似词

innocence清白，无罪；天真无邪

purity(Purity)人名；(肯)普丽蒂

virtue(Virtue)人名；(英)弗丘

diffidence无自信；羞怯；内向

shame使丢脸，使羞愧

相反词

arrogance自大；傲慢态度

pride自豪；骄傲；自尊心；狮群

conceit幻想

arrogance自大；傲慢态度