Being a modest person, he was content to play second fiddle to others.
作为一个谦虚者,他愿意居于他人的次要位置。
They had spent the night at a modest hotel.
他们在一家普通的旅馆过夜。
The research was carried out on a modest scale.
这个研究项目开展的规模不算太大。
The result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.
结果显示舆论略微右倾。
The firm will be able to pay off its debts and still turn a modest profit.
该公司将能够还清其债务,而且还会稍有赢利。
They carry only a modest risk for the disease.
他们患这种病的风险不大。
Consuming a modest snack should be entirely sufficient.
适量吃点零食就足够了。
Even a modest force, if sustained over a long time, would do.
如果它持续很长的时间的话,即使风力不大也可以做到。
It brings in a modest income, but I could make more money doing other things.
它能带来微薄的收入,但我可以通过做其他事情赚更多的钱。
The company also offers a repair program for their customers for a modest fee.
该公司还为他们的客户提供一项费用适中的维修计划。
At an appointed time, he picked me up in a modest sedan with one of those giant pizza-delivery prisms.
在约定的时间,他开着一辆普通的轿车来接我,车顶上装着一个巨大的披萨外送的棱柱。
Future markets, which show only a modest recovery of prices to around $60 a barrel by 2019, support this view.
期货市场也支持这一观点。期货市场显示,到2019年,油价只会小幅回升至每桶60美元左右。
Futures markets, which show only a modest recovery of prices to around $60 a barrel by 2019, support this view.
期货市场显示到2019年,油价仅小幅回升至每桶60美元左右,该市场支持这一观点。
The results of a growing number of studies suggest that even a modest vitamin shortfall can be harmful to your health.
越来越多的研究结果表明,即使是轻微的维生素缺乏也会对健康有害。
In Lagos, foreign oil workers can pay as much as $65,000 per year in rent for a modest apartment in a safe part of town.
在拉各斯,外国石油工人每年需要支付高达6.5万美元的租金才能在镇上一个安全的地段租到一套普通公寓。
From then on his sketches, which appeared under the pen name "Boz" in The Evening Chronicle, earned him a modest reputation.
从那时起,他的小品文以“博兹”这一笔名刊登在《纪事晚报》上,为他赢得了一定的声誉。
On a five to three vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday—a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.
最高法院在星期一以五票对三票否决了亚利桑那州移民法的大部分内容,这是奥巴马政府在政策上取得的微小胜利。
They found that early attention skills were the most consistent predictor of academic success, and that likability by peers also had a modest effect on academic performance.
他们发现,早期的注意力技能是学业成功最一致的预测因素,同伴的友善程度对学习成绩也有一定的影响。
The first published sketch, "A Dinner at Polar Walk" brought tears to Dickens's eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine, earned him a modest reputation.
狄更斯发表的第一部小品文《极地的晚餐》在《每月杂志》上刊登时,他泪流满面,这为他赢得了不少声誉。
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。
But it is a modest, useful step.
不过,这是挺不错的第一步。
We got loaded onto a bus after a modest delay.
谦逊的晚点过后,我们上了一辆公共汽车。
It only has a modest effect in regrowing hair.
该药物对头发的重新生长只起微弱的作用。
If it finds SQL, it does a modest syntax check.
如果找到SQL,它会进行最温和的语法检查。
The "Sweeping Old Lady" is also a modest great master.
“扫地老太太”也是这样一位低调的高人。
Ecuador is a modest oil exporter, but output is falling.
厄瓜多尔只是一个中等石油出口国,而且产量还在下降。
And so the pressure that results is a modest pressure, right?
所以最终得到的,压强是一个适中的压强?
And so the pressure that results is a modest pressure, right?
所以最终得到的,压强是一个适中的压强?
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