John Silvia is the senior economist at Wells Fargo Bank: "Private payroll gains continue to be modest and I would say it does raise flags for those super optimists who were looking for a V-shaped recovery and thinking that we are going to go back to normal very quickly in the US.economy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

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

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

And,as Congressman Rush said, they live in very modest means and it was quite a moment to behold."

VOA: standard.2009.04.07

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

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

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

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

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

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

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

"I was born to a family of modest means.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

So, I'm inclined to think that the right position here is a kind of moderate one, a modest one.

所以，我倾向于认为,这个问题正确的观点是一种适中的，适中的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

A little modest bedroom there in Versailles.

这是凡尔赛宫里一个稍简朴的卧房

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Many North Korea experts see Friday's far more modest wage proposal in the context of a recent thaw Pyongyang's attitude toward the South possibly aimed at boosting economic assistance as the North feels the pinch of international sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

In that year, we were early on in terms of diversifying the portfolio -we'd only been working on that program for two years -and even so,the negative return was less than 1%, so it was a modest negative return.

在那一年,我们还处于投资组合多元化的初期,刚刚开始2年,即便如此,股灾时我们的亏损小于1%,这只是一个轻微的亏损

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And there are the Disney theme parks. But toward the end of last year, the Walt Disney Family Museum was born in a complex of modest red brick buildings less than a five-minute drive from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

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

Because, of course, if you're a modest, if you accept the modest version of the valuable container theory, then if the contents get bad enough, that can outweigh the positive value of life.

因为如果你是个保守者，如果你接受保守价值容器理论，那么如果生活内容极为糟糕，它便超越了活着的正数。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And what we now see is that-- to see whether that could be the case or not, we've got to get clear in our own minds about whether we believe in a neutral container theory, ... a positive, valuable container theory or-- and among those, between a fantastic and a modest container theory.

现在我们可以看到-,情况是不是这样，我们就要想清楚,我们相信的是中性容器理论，是积极的有价值容器理论还是-,有价值容器理论中的，理想容器理论或保守容器理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选