modest
US /ˈmɑdɪst/
・UK /ˈmɒdɪst/
B1 中級英檢中級多益
adj.形容詞謙虛的
He was very modest about his high test scores
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為什麼我們談戀愛需要慢慢來？❤️ (Why We Need to Take It Slowly in Love)
- If heartbreak can kill us – and it more or less can – no wonder if we should, at least in part, begin with modest steps. To the general terror, some of us have backgrounds that add another particularly intense layer of fear. We may have grown up in disturbed environments where the first rule of love was that it was scarce and unpredictably distributed.
如果心碎會要了我們的命--它或多或少會要了我們的命--那就難怪我們應該，至少在一定程度上，從適度的步驟開始。除了普遍的恐懼之外，我們中的一些人的背景又給我們增添了一層特別強烈的恐懼。我們可能是在不安的環境中長大的，在那裡，愛情的第一條規則就是稀缺和不可預測的分配。
- If heartbreak can kill us—and it more or less can—no wonder if we should, at least in part, begin with modest steps.
運氣到底在人生中佔了多少比例？ (How Much Does Luck Decide Our Lives?)
- it's only occasionally that a modest error turns out to have devastating consequences.
無論我們的努力多麼熱切，總會有相當程度的運氣。而且，更
- a modest error turns out to have devastating
consequences. There are some who already believe
無法僅歸咎於我們的愚蠢。我們經常犯小錯誤；只有偶爾
VidTalk // 如何變得更有自信！ (VidTalk // How to be more Confident)
- Yeah tell me about it, people are not modest these days. They totally need to learn about it.
對啊，我也這樣覺得，人們都不太謙虛了現在，他們該好好學學
- People are not modest these days.
根據字典，自信不只是相信自己，也可以相信他人
臺灣：廟宇與山林壯麗之旅！ (TAIWAN: Temples and Mountains)
- The Confucian monastery, or better to say what is left of it after the fire in 2006, looks much more modest.
新的牆體已經建成--完全按照原件建造。
- The Confucian monastery — or better to say, what is left of it after the fire in 2006 — looks much more modest.
儒家寺院--或者更好地說是2006年大火後留下的東西--看起來要簡陋得多。
美國政府為何無法說服美國人生小孩？🤔 (Why The U.S. Government Can’t Convince Americans To Have Kids)
- Research suggests to us that these are family studies that markedly increasing like the child tax credit can have a modest but noteworthy effect on births.
研究向我們表明，這些家庭研究表明，像兒童稅收抵免這樣明顯增加的措施會對出生率產生適度但值得注意的影響。
- Research suggests to us, these are family studies, that markedly increasing, like, the child tax credit can have a modest but noteworthy effect on births.
我們的估計是，如果我們將兒童稅收抵免額提高到每個兒童 4,500 美元，而現在大約為 2,000 美元。
苦難帶給我們的超能力！ (The Superpower We Gain From Suffering)
- political turmoil—the more we may appreciate what remains pure and hopeful despite its modest appearance or lack of obvious glamour.
但在某些時候，野心的方向會發生逆轉，而引發這種變化的往往是痛苦。
- The more challenging existence as a whole becomes, the more we get to know about love, sickness, infighting, intransigence, career reversal and political turmoil, the more we may appreciate what remains pure and despite its modest appearance or lack of obvious glamour.
整個生存環境越是充滿挑戰，我們對愛情、疾病、內訌、頑固不化、事業逆轉和政治動盪的瞭解越多，我們就越能欣賞那些儘管外表平淡或缺乏明顯魅力卻依然純粹的東西。
科學的黑暗面 [賽麥維斯醫生悲傷的故事] (The Dark Side of Science [The Sad Story of Dr Semmelweis])
![科學的黑暗面 [賽麥維斯醫生悲傷的故事] (The Dark Side of Science [The Sad Story of Dr Semmelweis])](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zt6gPKtxMro/hqdefault.jpg)
- Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis was born in Hungary in 1818. He grew up in a modest family, but displayed an early aptitude for academics. After school, he pursued a medical education.
伊格納茨-塞梅爾維斯醫生於 1818 年出生於匈牙利。他生長在一個普通家庭，但很早就表現出了學術天賦。上學後，他繼續接受醫學教育。
- He grew up in a modest family but displayed an early aptitude for academics.
科學的學習和細緻的研究最終讓他有了突破性的發現。他注意到，一些醫生從解剖屍體直接過渡到接生，並假設他們正在傳播危險的病原體，使新生兒母親受到感染。
思想史：餐桌禮儀的演變！ (HISTORY OF IDEAS - Manners)
- It seems natural to most of us that we shouldn't burp loudly in front of strangers, touch their behinds without permission or spit in the face of those who annoy us. But history shows us a different story. What we might take to be normal impulses to be modest, restrained and dignified are the hard-won fruits of a long and always unsteady civilising process.
對我們大多數人來說，不應該在陌生人面前大聲打嗝，不應該未經許可摸別人的屁股，不應該向惹惱我們的人吐口水，這些似乎都是理所當然的。但歷史告訴我們一個不同的故事。我們可能會認為謙虛、剋制和有尊嚴是正常的衝動，但這卻是漫長而又總是不穩定的文明進程中來之不易的成果。
- What we might take to be normal impulses to be modest, restrained, and
公元前 13000 年。英格蘭薩默塞特的戈夫洞穴。我們現在所在的洞穴被稱為
