Being a household name, the director is still modest about his achievements.
作为一个家喻户晓的人物，这个导演对自己的成就仍然很谦虚。
As long as you understand that any potential benefit is modest and subject to further refinement, taking a daily multivitamin makes a lot of sense.
只要你明白任何潜在的益处都是适度的，而且还有待进一步完善，每天服用多种维生素就很有意义。
In Lagos, foreign oil workers can pay as much as $65,000 per year in rent for a modest apartment in a safe part of town.
在拉各斯，外国石油工人每年需要支付高达6.5万美元的租金才能在镇上一个安全的地段租到一套普通公寓。
It's a very modest acceleration.
一个很小的加速度。
It seemed so modest a request that the principal tree at once agreed to it.
看来他的请求非常谦虚，立刻得到了树的首领的同意。
He's modest, as well as being a great player.
他是一个谦虚而且出色的运动员。
More learned a man is, the more modest he usually is.
人越博学，就越谦虚。
The engineer is thought to be capable and modest, so his promotion to manager is a popular appointment.
大家认为这个工程师既有能力又谦虚，所以任命他当经理这个决定深得人心。
Being a modest person, he was content to play second fiddle to others.
作为一个谦虚者,他愿意居于他人的次要位置。
He achieved some modest victories, pressuring the city to open a jobs center in the neighborhood, demanding action to remove asbestos from a housing estate.
他取得了一些温和的胜利，向市政府施压，要求在附近开设一个就业中心，并要求采取行动，从一个住宅区清除石棉。
It's better to learn to be modest now rather than take a proud fall later in life.
与其在以后的生活中自暴自弃，不如现在就学会谦虚。
A series of arrows points the way to the modest grave of Andrei Sakharov.
一系列箭头指示着通往简朴的安德烈·萨哈罗夫之墓的路。
The research was carried out on a modest scale.
这个研究项目开展的规模不算太大。
They had spent the night at a modest hotel.
他们在一家普通的旅馆过夜。
He charged a relatively modest fee.
他收取的费用不算高。
The firm will be able to pay off its debts and still turn a modest profit.
该公司将能够还清其债务，而且还会稍有赢利。
The result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.
结果显示舆论略微右倾。
The garter was so bashful, so modest, and thought it was a strange question to answer.
袜带是那么羞怯、那么谦虚，不过，这个问题回答起来很奇怪。
The more learned a man is, the more modest be usually become.
越博学的人越谦虚。
In my guidelines for saving the environment, I suggest modest changes, like eating vegetarian meals two days a week.
在我的拯救环境指南中，我建议适度改变，比如每周吃两天素食。
So all these help to create an attitude of conformity in the community, and you can see why a modest, a very plain style would have become so widely imitated throughout rural New England.
因此，所有这些都有助于在社区中形成一种从众的态度，你也可以明白为什么这种谦逊的、非常朴素的风格会在新英格兰农村地区被如此广泛地模仿。
The company also offers a repair program for their customers for a modest fee.
该公司还为他们的客户提供一项费用适中的维修计划。
Even a modest force, if sustained over a long time, would do.
如果它持续很长的时间的话，即使风力不大也可以做到。
Nearly every movie theater, however modest, had a piano or organ to provide musical accompaniment to silent pictures.
几乎每家电影院都有钢琴或风琴为无声电影伴奏，无论这些电影院多么简陋。
At an appointed time, he picked me up in a modest sedan with one of those giant pizza-delivery prisms.
在约定的时间，他开着一辆普通的轿车来接我，车顶上装着一个巨大的披萨外送的棱柱。
They found that early attention skills were the most consistent predictor of academic success, and that likability by peers also had a modest effect on academic performance.
他们发现，早期的注意力技能是学业成功最一致的预测因素，同伴的友善程度对学习成绩也有一定的影响。
The first published sketch, "A Dinner at Polar Walk" brought tears to Dickens's eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine, earned him a modest reputation.
狄更斯发表的第一部小品文《极地的晚餐》在《每月杂志》上刊登时，他泪流满面，这为他赢得了不少声誉。
The results of a growing number of studies suggest that even a modest vitamin shortfall can be harmful to your health.
越来越多的研究结果表明，即使是轻微的维生素缺乏也会对健康有害。
Enter the executive editor, who makes a suggestion requiring a more-than-modest rearrangement of the design and the addition of an information box.
执行编辑进来了，提出建议要求对设计进行严格的重新安排，并添加一个信息框。
With Cuicuilco eliminated as a potential rival, any one of a number of relatively modest towns might have emerged as a leading economic and political power in Central Mexico.
随着Cuicuilco作为一个潜在的竞争对手被淘汰，一些相对不太大的城镇中，任何一个都有可能成为墨西哥中部主要的经济和政治力量。
应用推荐