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单词

modesty

读音
ˈmɑːdəsti
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释义

n. 谦逊;质朴;稳重

例句

He accepted the award with characteristic modesty.
他以他一贯的谦逊态度接受了奖励。
"Your modesty is a cover for your overweening conceit," she said.
“你用谦逊的外表掩饰自负的内心,”她说。
His modesty does him credit, for the food he produces speaks for itself.
他的谦虚为他赢得了信誉,他生产的食品就是最好的证明。

强化记忆

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of their own biases, their own overconfidence.They have epistemological modesty.They are open-minded in the face of ambiguity.
You have a couple of lines of -- how to say it? --of exquisite modesty in the bookwhere you say you think like an engineer,
and just did an awful, awful job,so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.They still are an awfully arrogant group of people, I will assure you,
And he defined "cunt" as a "nasty name for a nasty thing."Such modesty from someone who also uses the word "buccaneer's boot,"“lobster pot,” “skut” and “Mrs. Frub’s parlor”
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