But the point-one percent jump in the unemployment rate from May was more modest than had been anticipated.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Today you might say political scientists and social scientists they're more modest in ascribing priority to any particular branch of knowledge.

今日，你会说,政治科学家与社会科学家,较不敢将这种优先考虑,加到任何特定的。

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But despite the fact that it's modest, if everyone in the US would give according to that scale, it would yield 500 billion dollars.

尽管每个人的捐款不多，如果在美国，每个人都根据这个标准表捐款，那将会是5000亿美元。

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And the U.S. and the 16 nation Eurozone can expect modest but continued expansion even as job growth continues to lag in the new year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Modest container theories, that is, say there's a value to being alive, but it can in principle be outweighed.

保守的有价值容器理论认为，活着有一定的价值，但是按道理它可以被超越。

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But at a press conference in Paris, the researchers says it produced only modest results.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

In fact, that building itself, of which I don't have a slide, is extremely modest.

事实上 这个建筑,抱歉我没有幻灯片,在当时是很简陋的

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Many North Korea experts see Friday's far more modest wage proposal in the context of a recent thaw Pyongyang's attitude toward the South possibly aimed at boosting economic assistance as the North feels the pinch of international sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

The force may taper off, the force may not be given by a straight line, but for modest deformations, every spring will have a linear regime in which the force is linearly proportional to the stretching.

它产生的力可能会渐渐消失,力的曲线可能不是一条直线,而有轻微的弯曲,每个弹簧都有一个线性区间,在这一区间内,力和伸长量是线性关系

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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

But even in those moments when I'm drawn towards valuable container theories, it's always the modest version.

但即便是在那些时刻,即便是在我赞同有价值容器理论时，我赞同的通常是保守价值的说法。

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The town hall was in very modest proportions because it's Calvinist.

与之相比,市政厅的布局则非常简陋,因为这属于加尔文主义教派

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A little modest bedroom there in Versailles.

这是凡尔赛宫里一个稍简朴的卧房

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