| 单词 | modest |
| 释义 | mod·est 1. a. < the well-bred man … is modest without being bashful, and steady without being impudent — Earl of Chesterfield > < was entirely natural, modest, and unaffected in manner — Eliot Clark > < was so certain he was right he could be rather charmingly simple and modest — T.R.Ybarra > b. < the most modest, silent, sheepfaced and meek of little men — W.M.Thackeray > 2. < the reply seems calm, modest and highly persuasive — R.K.Carr > < what nearly all newsmen were actually doing was a modest job of explaining the bald facts — F.L.Mott > < his emotions he records in the plain and modest language of the eighteenth century — Theodore Baird > 3. < all the females of our family have been perfectly modest and delicate — Margaret Deland > < the pure bashful maiden was too modest, too tender, too trustful — W.M.Thackeray > 4. a. < a quietly prosperous rural society, in which landownership, opportunity and modest wealth were widely distributed — G.M.Trevelyan > < while their means were always modest there was no trace of dire poverty — J.T.Ellis > < the galaxy of which our sun is a modest member — B.J.Bok > b. < the day-to-day work of the scientist depends on modest working hypotheses rather than on broad sweeping theories — Eric Ashby > < press agent for a modest nightclub — Newsweek > < quite famous in a modest sort of way — Robertson Davies > Synonyms: see chaste, humble, shy |
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