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。
It predicted that higher prices would have only a modest effect on farmers' incomes.
研究预计，更高的水价只会对农民的收入构成非常微小的影响。
A few recent studies released in 2005 found that soy only had a modest effect on cholesterol levels.
而2005年发布的研究报告显示，大豆只能适量影响人体的胆固醇水平。
But with many households unable to borrow, others keen to pay down debt and many businesses swimming in cash, lower interest rates are likely to have only a modest effect.
但是由于许多家庭没有能力贷款，其他的家庭强烈要求降低债务，以及企业大量流动资金和低利率也有可能有些间接影响。
Influenza vaccines have a modest effect in reducing influenza symptoms and working days lost. There is no evidence that they affect complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission.
流感疫苗在降低流感症状与减少请假天数上有一些效果，但没有证据显示流感疫苗影响并发症，如：肺炎或传染。
After hearing the new results, Seth Berkley, chief executive of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, said, "Certainly, there's some kind of signal there," but added, "it's a modest effect."
在听取新的结果后，国际艾滋病疫苗倡议组织的首席执行官塞思·伯克利说：“可以肯定的是，试验出现了一些信号。”但他补充说：“效果不是很明显。”
Not only would a modest rise have "very little or no effect" on employment, the letter said, it would be an important tool in fighting poverty.
信中讲到，适度地提高不但对受雇率有很小或者没有影响，而且它将是对付贫困的有力武器。
Paolo Boffetta from the Tisch cancer Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York found that eating a lot of fruit and vegetables has only "a very modest" protective effect against cancer.
纽约西奈山医学院蒂施癌症研究学院保罗·波费塔也发现大量进食水果和蔬菜只对癌症有微乎其微的抑制作用。
"Although the merits of each type of analysis can be debated, all three yielded a possible, albeit modest, effect of the vaccine in preventing HIV infection," Dolin wrote.
道林写道：“虽然每种分析方法的优点都存在争议之处，但三种方法都表明这种疫苗在预防艾滋病病毒传染方面具有可能但却适当的有效性。”
Researchers have found a similar modest effect with genes influencing Type 2 diabetes.
研究者们还发现一种类似的轻度影响2型糖尿病的基因。
But in a study of its own the BIS predicted a far more modest effect: less than 0.2 percentage points in most countries, though in the medium term there would be a gain from greater stability.
但BIS自己的研究中预测，效果远没有那么严重：大多数国家不到0.2%的下降，但在中期会由于稳定性的增加而获益。
Previous studies have shown that modest amounts of alcohol may have a protective effect when it comes to heart disease.
先前的研究显示适度的酒精可以抑制心脏病的发生。
The client had a modest budget for the project, so the architects decided to use a type of locally produced clay brick and to employ local workmen to achieve the effect.
客户对项目的预算有限，所以建筑师决定使用一种当地生产的粘土砖并且雇佣当地工人以达到效果。
Even a modest earnings miss could have a big effect on the share price, since more of Apple's shareholders today are fickle traders.
由于苹果的许多股东都相当浮躁，即使在合理范围内的收益损失都会对其股价产生较大的影响。
According to a new study, such advertising may have no effect at all on sales - at best the impact has been described as modest.
据最近的研究发现，这些广告在销售中可能没有起到效果- - -充其量只能说是在一定程度上适当的作用。
The bank has been a good image in the social reputation, I am about to graduate, if there is a chance is willing to your company can effect a modest!
贵银行一直以良好形象在社会上享有美誉，我即将毕业，如果有机会的话很愿意能为贵公司效一份微薄之力！
"Clinicians need to know that the effects were significant but modest," he said. "It was not a dramatic effect."
他说：“临床医生应该知道，该结果具有统计学上的显著性，但是疗效中等，不是特别有效。”
"Clinicians need to know that the effects were significant but modest," he said. "It was not a dramatic effect."
他说：“临床医生应该知道，该结果具有统计学上的显著性，但是疗效中等，不是特别有效。”
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