humble/lowly/modest.导航词义：谦卑的，卑微的

1. humble:adj. 谦恭的，卑微的.指态度谦逊的，也指社会地位等低微的，含对人低声下气之意。

a humble apology

恭敬的道歉

eat humble pie

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He is very humble towards his superiors.

他对上司很谦恭。

He started his career as a humble clerk.

他从一个卑微的职员起家。

2. lowly:adj. 卑微的，低下的.指社会地位、职位等低下的，有时为幽默用法，可与 humble 换用。

The lowly are often most intelligent.

卑贱者往往最聪明。

He was not ashamed of his lowly/humble origins.

他并不以自己出身低微为耻。

3. modest:adj. 谦虚的，谦逊的.指行为、态度等不自大、不虚荣、不傲慢的。

He is very modest about his success.

他对自己的成就很谦虚。

She is modest and amiable to everyone.

她待人谦和。

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1·She's very modest about her success.

她对自己的成功非常谦虚。《牛津词典》

2·You're too modest!

你太谦虚了！《牛津词典》

3·He's modest, as well as being a great player.

他是一个谦虚而且出色的运动员。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·He was modest to the point of self-effacement.

他谦逊达到了不喜被注意的程度。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·He was typically modest about his achievements.

他一如既往，对自己的成就很谦虚。《牛津词典》

6·He was modest and diffident about his own success.

他很谦虚，不愿谈及自己的成功。《牛津词典》

7·This modest group size allows our teachers to respond to the needs of each student.

这个适中的小组规模使得我们的老师们可以应对每个学生的需要。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·This headmaster is very modest.

这位校长很谦虚。《新英汉大辞典》

9·My friend is too modest to answer.

我的朋友太谦虚了，所以不会说的。

10·Be modest, otherwise you will lag behind.

要谦虚，否则就要落后。《新英汉大辞典》

谦虚的

1·She's very modest about her success.

她对自己的成功非常谦虚。《牛津词典》

2·You're too modest!

你太谦虚了！《牛津词典》

3·He's modest, as well as being a great player.

他是一个谦虚而且出色的运动员。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·He was modest and diffident about his own success.

他很谦虚，不愿谈及自己的成功。《牛津词典》

5·This headmaster is very modest.

这位校长很谦虚。《新英汉大辞典》

适度的

1·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。

2·Parliament used British tax money to pay modest incentives to Americans producing such items as silk, iron, dyes, hemp, and lumber.

国会利用英国的税收资金，给予生产丝绸、铁、染料、大麻和木材等产品的美国人适度的鼓励。

3·That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share with family and friends.

这意味着我们需要适度的、符合现实的期望，我们需要教会人们烹饪足够好的食物与家人和朋友分享。

4·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。

5·Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro is surely among the masterpieces of music even though its modest innovations are confined to extending existing means.

莫扎特的《费加罗的婚姻》无疑是一曲乐界杰作，尽管它的适度创新仅限于扩展现有的方法。

谦逊的

1·He was modest to the point of self-effacement.

他谦逊达到了不喜被注意的程度。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·For example, modest joggers should not compare their performance with Olympic standard marathon runners.

例如，谦逊的慢跑者不应该将他们的表现与奥运会标准的马拉松选手进行比较。

3·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。

4·A new and modest view of space, indeed, from the country that brought you the Apollo programme.

这样一个新的、谦逊的太空观念正是来自那个曾经带来阿波罗计划的国家。

5·Philosophy can assist us in understanding how we might think about our lives, while remaining modest enough to leave the living of them to us.

这是哲学应有的样子。它帮助我们理解应如何看待人生，同时它又保持足够的谦逊，把人生留给我们过。

不大的

1·Thompson's business was originally modest in size, but in recent years he has expanded it by opening scores of chain stores across the country.

汤普森的生意起初规模不大，但近年来他在全国各地开了几十家连锁店，把生意做大了。

2·Meanwhile, tax breaks for children are modest.

与此同时，对儿童税收的优惠力度不大。

3·How can this gap between the modest expectations of the Originators with respect to the impact of the Agile Manifesto and its actual attractiveness be explained?

发起者对于敏捷宣言会产生的影响预期不大，但它实际的吸引力如此巨大，这之间的差距怎么解释呢？

4·On both sides of the road rubble towers over his modest parish car.

吴神父开着他那辆不大的教区汽车，路旁堆满了高高的瓦砾。

5·Though Friday's tsunami caused tremendous devastation in northern Japan, its impact elsewhere appears to have been modest.

虽然周五的海啸使日本北部遭受巨大破坏，但在其他地方的影响似乎不大。

谦

1·The modest receive benefit, while the conceited reap failure.

谦受益， 满招损。《新英汉大辞典》

2·Chapter two analyzes the rationality of strict liability, it pursues utility but not neglects impartial, it is effective to prevent crime but not violate modest restraining of criminal law.

第二章分析了严格责任的合理性，它追求功利但并未忽略公正，它有效了预防了犯罪并不违背刑法的谦抑性。

3·Over-expanding the scope of vocation does not only disobey the modest principle of criminal law, but also makes the crime of offense of vocational negligence meaningless.

过于扩大“业务”的范围不仅有悖于刑法的谦抑性原则，而且使业务过失犯罪失去存在的意义。

4·Modest words, taboo words and circuitous words were the usual expression way of euphemistic rhetoric.

委婉修辞常用的表现方式有谦敬语、避讳语、迂回语等。

5·At the same time here, so all of us small sellers of harm to the businesses that deeply modest means.

同时在这里，我们全体中小卖家向因此而受到伤害的商家表示深深的谦意。

虚心

1·Provided you are modest, you'll surely make progress.

只要虚心，就会进步。《新英汉大辞典》

2·Han Jia, you know I am modest and willing to learn.

韩佳，你也知道我大牛虚心好学。

3·Yang Shi, a scholar in Song Dynasty, was modest and eager to learn and showed great respect to his teachers.

宋朝有一位学者，名叫杨时，他年轻时虚心好学，对老师十分尊敬。

4·Nizan draw bamboo in the world to express their longing for a better life, or showing modest upward, upright and outspoken feelings!

倪瓒仅仅是借画竹来抒发自己对世间美好生活的向往，或表现出虚心向上、刚正不阿的情怀呀！

5·It keeps modest as the natural disposition of life ever from its tender shoot bursting out hard icy soil till its green pole goes into cloud.

从嫩笋冲破坚冰冻土，至翠竿穿云剪雾，都永葆虚心的人生秉性。

端庄的

1·As a result, 'modest wear', as it's been dubbed, is one of the fastest-growing fashion sectors.

结果，“端庄着装”风被称为是流行速度最快的潮流之一了。

2·Clothes will be more modest.

衣服将会更为端庄。

谦卑

1·Great Media people have a modest heart and we modestly learn from our industrial peers.

国瑞人有一颗谦卑之心，虚怀若谷向每位同行学习。

2·We should practise the so-called organic farming methods, which Revere nature, are modest and respect the natural rules, and at the same time allow us to bring about changes to some extent.

正如文中所说的有机耕作方式，敬畏自然、保持谦卑且顺应自然法则，也许会让我们有所改变。