The Mission Church, as the 19th-century building is locally known, towers over modest red-brick and wood-frame houses in a district that is as unpretentious as it is diverse.

当地著名的19世纪建筑天主教堂，坐落在房屋风格朴素无华但丰富多元的区域，高塔昂首挺立于一片幽静的红砖木结构住宅之上。

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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。

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On both sides of the road rubble towers over his modest parish car.

吴神父开着他那辆不大的教区汽车，路旁堆满了高高的瓦砾。

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Perhaps the government has cooled over his modest proposal to provide a way of overturning such things as over-cautious health and safety rulings.

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And for what it's worth, the 610 hardly took over our modest urban apartment, which has a combined eating-living room area.

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South Africa's Reconstruction and Development Programme, for instance, has subsidized over 1 million modest, 344-square-foot single-family structures that families own and, over time, are expected to improve.

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