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

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

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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。

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

So, those are modest theories-- positive value for life, but it can be outweighed.

所以，这些是保守的理论-,活着是正数，但是它可以被超越。

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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

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

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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

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

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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。

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