He was a shy, self-effacing man.

他是个腼腆谦逊的人。

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As women we tend to be self-effacing and make light of what we have achieved.

作为妇女，我们往往谦逊，对自己取得的成功轻描淡写。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Self-effacing to the last, he had his ashes scattered off England’s coast at Eastbourne—the scene of happy holidays with the Marxes.

其谦卑始终如一，他嘱咐人们将他的骨灰撒向英国伊斯勃恩海湾——那个他曾和马克思一家愉快渡假的地方。

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They do take pride in the little things they do, even though, in a broader sense, Virgos can be rather self-effacing and self-critical.

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This self-effacing, self-defeating approach is typical of neoconservative foreign policy regardless of whether it is practiced by Democrats or Republicans and it is avowedly anti-self because it presumes self-interest is evil.

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Business journalists have taken to producing glowing profiles of self-effacing and self-denying bosses such as Haruka Nishimatsu, the boss of Japan Airlines, who travels to work on the bus and pays himself less than his pilots, and Mike Eskew, the former boss of UPS, who flew coach and shares an administrative assistant with three other people.

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