You look like you're being humble, but in fact you're bragging – showing off - about your car. It's a humblebrag. False modesty.

你表面上很谦逊，但实际上是在炫耀——显摆——你的车。这就是" humblebrag" ，谦虚自夸，虚伪的谦逊。

Out went gold ormolu, in came modesty, the cult of nature.

告别了金碧辉煌，随之而来的是谦逊质朴，对大自然的崇拜。

The modesty of the demand shook me.

这个要求如此微不足道，真使我震惊。

Notions of modesty restricted women in the Victorian era, but they still swam.

在维多利时期，谦恭的观念牵制着女性，但是她们仍去游泳。

In his autobiography, Darwin himself speaks of his intellectual powers with extraordinary modesty.

在自传，文极其谦逊地评价了自己的智力。

" Me? " He was mimicking my modesty.

“我？”他在模仿我的怯。

A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute.

个自我要求谦虚的人会在分钟内放弃谦虚。

As always, modesty dictates a strict entrance policy.

和样，严格的准入政策反映了原始人的朴质。

Believe me, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that your modesty, so far from doing you any disservice, rather adds to your other perfections.

“说真的，伊丽莎白小姐，你害怕臊，非但对你没有丝毫损害，而且更增加了你的天生丽质。

The promise of choice has drained us of the patience and modesty necessary to grapple with the tensions that are prone to come our way whomever we might be with.

选择太多使我们失去了必要的耐心和谦和，无法应对无论我们和谁在起都很容易出现的紧张关系。

But he respected her modesty and did nothing more.

出于对她的端庄的尊重，他没有再做出什么。

The flower lowered her head with a pleasant look and with modesty.

这花朵的表情看上去很愉快，很涩。

It is worn by some Muslim women who wish to demonstrate modesty.

这是些希望表现出谦虚的穆斯林女性穿的。

I'm the chief of a small hospital, Dr. Walton said with modesty.

“我是家小医院的主任”，华顿医师谦虛地说。

Like women are into the bustier-style dresses but they want to add sleeves for modesty.

再比如身着吊带裙风格礼服的女性想加上袖子多些稳重端庄。

You're on board with the lady modesty, right?

你赞同女士的谦虚吧？

Christianity began to become quite widespread, so ideas around modesty and display change, and it's thought that women maybe started covering their heads, so there are fewer of these very elaborate hairstyles.

基督教开始变得普遍，所以关于谦虚和展示的想法发生了变化，人们认为女性可能需要开始遮住头，所以这种非精致的发型很少。

They could for example point out that the use of an expression like " natural modesty" is not always defensible, for if it is " natural" to be modest, it must be something you are born with, something innate.

例如，他们指出，像“天生害”这样的说法并不定成立，因为假使害是种“天生”的性格，那定是人出生就有的，是种出于内在的品格。

And if they remained in their chambers whilst thou art already awake, and comest and bestowest and distributest, how would thy proud modesty upbraid for it!

假如当你醒着的时候，当你走出来馈赠分发的时候，它们都呆在房间里：你高傲的耻感会对此感到多么生气啊！

An understanding that justice isn’t simply abstract legal theory; it affects people’s daily lives. And a spirit of decency, modesty, and even-handedness in his work.

对正义不仅仅是简单的法律理论，而是影响到每个人的日生活的深刻理解；以及在工作表现出来的正直、稳重、公正的精神。