self-effacing
['selfə'feisiŋ]
- adj. 谦让的；谦逊的；不出风头的
近义词
acquiescent
英英释义
- 1. reluctant to draw attention to yourself
实用场景例句
- He was a shy, self-effacing man.
- 他是个腼腆谦逊的人。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- As women we tend to be self-effacing and make light of what we have achieved.
- 作为女性我们往往不喜夸耀，对自己获得的成功轻描淡写。
柯林斯例句
- She was a quiet woman, bigboned, and self - effacing.
- 她骨架很大, 稳稳当当, 从来不喜欢抛头露面.
辞典例句
- His manner was often offensively supercilious, and then again modest and self - effacing, almost tremulous.
- 他的态度常常起初是敌对地傲慢的, 跟着又谦逊、自卑而几乎畏缩下来.
英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
- His manner with people is neither overbearing nor self - effacing.
- 他待人的态度一向不卑不亢.
互联网
- It'seems we must compete . Let's be self - effacing . Don't make her too galling.
- 欢欢:看来不比是不行了,我们让着她点,别让她太难堪.
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- They were both self - effacing.
- 他们两人都十分谦逊.
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- The great man was embarrassingly humble and self - effacing.
- 这个了不起的人物谦逊内敛,倒有些让人感到尴尬.
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- She's brilliant but self - effacing.
- 她才华横溢而不露锋芒.
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- Joe is a humble and self - effacing person and so automatically takes second place.
- 乔是个谦逊而不愿抛头露面的人,总是自动退居次要地位.
互联网
- The mild - mannered marketing professor is far too self - effacing - and well - versed in financial economics - to accept the comparison.
- 这位温文尔雅的营销学教授实在太过谦慎,因此不愿接受这个比喻,尽管他在金融经济学领域造诣很深.
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双语例句
- 1. He has never exhibited the self-confidence, bordering on arrogance, of his predecessor.
- 他从未表现出他前任的那种近乎傲慢的自信。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. I felt so self-conscious under Luke's mother's intense gaze.
- 在卢克母亲审视的目光下，我感到极不自在。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. She has now changed into a happy, self-confident woman.
- 如今她已经变成一个快乐、自信的女人。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He is being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- 他因开枪自残受伤正在接受治疗。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.
- 她抑制着心中的自怜，将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。
来自柯林斯例句
英文词源
- self-effacing (adj.)
- 1902, from self- + effacing (see efface). Self-effacement is recorded from 1866.
词态变化
名词: self-effacement;