He was a shy, self-effacing man.

他是个腼腆谦逊的人。

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He exuded confidence and professionalism but was self-effacing and modest, always ready to make fun of himself.

尽管他展现出自信和专业精神，但是为人却谦逊而低调，时常自嘲。

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My father, so self-effacing in normal life, would wake up, call our names, say how much he loved us and blow kisses, before succumbing once more to the exhaustion that was pulling him away from us.

父亲平生低调，但那时异常清醒，唤着我们的名字，说他有多么爱我们，拼命地亲吻我们，直到一次又一次耗尽精力而昏迷过去。

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They do take pride in the little things they do, even though, in a broader sense, Virgos can be rather self-effacing and self-critical.

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Business journalists have taken to producing glowing profiles of self-effacing and self-denying bosses such as Haruka Nishimatsu, the boss of Japan Airlines, who travels to work on the bus and pays himself less than his pilots, and Mike Eskew, the former boss of UPS, who flew coach and shares an administrative assistant with three other people.

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Even the notoriously self-effacing Netherlanders admit that Dutch food is nothing to write home about.

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