It's an old,crowded neighborhood of modest stucco homes and tiny shops that stretches for about 30 blocks along Eighth Street.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

There are children who by a relatively modest donation to an effective aid agency, you could save their lives.

要拯救这些儿童的生命,只需要你向比较有效的救助机构,捐赠适量的钱款。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But despite the fact that it's modest, if everyone in the US would give according to that scale, it would yield 500 billion dollars.

尽管每个人的捐款不多，如果在美国，每个人都根据这个标准表捐款，那将会是5000亿美元。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But the point-one percent jump in the unemployment rate from May was more modest than had been anticipated.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

It may seem crazy but-- it may seem like a modest innovation but it actually was-- it was an important innovation.

这看起来也许有些疯狂,它看上去只是一个小创新,但实际上...,这是一个很重要的创新

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The pact is a modest but important step forward, according to Kingston Reif, at the Washington-based Center For Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

You don't get the more modest conclusion invisible things can't be destroyed or it's a whole lot harder to destroy them.

不是得出个更谦虚的结论,无形的东西不会毁灭或者,要毁灭它是不容易的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But he said there needs to be a way to provide health insurance to those of modest means.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

So again with the Gibbs free energy, now I see how to determine, if I change the pressure, if I change the temperature by some modest amount, how much is the Gibbs free energy going to change?

再一次通过吉布斯自由能，我知道当我，适当的改变压强和，温度的时候，吉布斯自由能如何变化？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Professor Neirotti was able to find a youth hostel so the students pay a modest $40 a night compared to other lodging options.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Today you might say political scientists and social scientists they're more modest in ascribing priority to any particular branch of knowledge.

今日，你会说,政治科学家与社会科学家,较不敢将这种优先考虑,加到任何特定的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The vast site is adorned with lavish headstones and statutes, as well as more modest memorials.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The first, you can see on the board up there, is by another Russian composer, Modest Musorgsky.

首先,你可以看到那边的黑板上,是另一位俄罗斯作曲家,莫戴斯特·穆索尔斯基的作品

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The first thing you notice when you walk inside John Bevis' modest two-story is the smell.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

In fact, that building itself, of which I don't have a slide, is extremely modest.

事实上 这个建筑,抱歉我没有幻灯片,在当时是很简陋的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And the U.S. and the 16 nation Eurozone can expect modest but continued expansion even as job growth continues to lag in the new year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Beyond a modest distance you don't feel the electron-electron repulsion.

在一个适中的距离,你感觉不到电子之间的排斥力。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But at a press conference in Paris, the researchers says it produced only modest results.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The force may taper off, the force may not be given by a straight line, but for modest deformations, every spring will have a linear regime in which the force is linearly proportional to the stretching.

它产生的力可能会渐渐消失,力的曲线可能不是一条直线,而有轻微的弯曲,每个弹簧都有一个线性区间,在这一区间内,力和伸长量是线性关系

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"Comprehensive reform, not modest repairs at the margin, but new rules of the game.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

And, so, Louis XIV, who liked to call himself the Sun God, a modest megalomaniac, he sends out officials into the provinces to enforce his will, and these dudes are called intendants--but that doesn't matter, you don't have to remember that.

因此,路易十四,自称为太阳王,一个外表谦虚实则嚣张自大的人,他派一些官员去各省强化他的意志,这些人被称作是监督官,这个不是重点,你们不用记这个

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The U.N.report says the world's economy is beginning to show signs of modest recovery.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Modest container theories, that is, say there's a value to being alive, but it can in principle be outweighed.

保守的有价值容器理论认为，活着有一定的价值，但是按道理它可以被超越。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I was born to a family of modest means.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Notice that on the modest view, if we ask ourselves, ? would it have been good to be immortal?

在保守价值容器理论的前提下，如果我们问自己，永生是否是好事？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But even by modest accounts, Yemen's economy is growing.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

I will open the Koran and I will show you where there are texts that say that the righteous woman is very modest woman, and pose her garment closely around her.

我可以翻开《古兰经》告诉你,那些文字在哪儿，它告诉我们,贤惠之女子当举止谦逊，当紧裹衣物以蔽其身。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's just kind of overwhelming." The modest Holcomb, a stocky man who sports a beard, said he is not the one who deserves all the credit in his black USA-1 sled dubbed "Night Train."

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

And I have to say when I read those guidelines, I thought that's incredible modest.

不得不说，当我看到这些准则的时候，我觉得需要捐赠的钱款真的不多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So let's listen to some more music of Musorgsky here, Modest Musorgsky.

那么咱们再来多听,一些穆索尔斯基的音乐,莫杰斯特·穆索尔斯基

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选