self-effacing
英 [ˌself ɪˈfeɪsɪŋ]
美 [ˌself ɪˈfeɪsɪŋ]
adj. 谦逊的; 不求闻达的
牛津词典
adj.
- 谦逊的；不求闻达的
not wanting to attract attention to yourself or your abilities- He was a shy, self-effacing man.
他是个腼腆谦逊的人。
- He was a shy, self-effacing man.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 自我谦避的;不求闻达的
Someone who isself-effacingdoes not like talking about themselves or drawing attention to themselves.- 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。 - ...the slightly self-effacing manner adopted by many diplomats.
许多外交官所持的那种稍稍自我谦避的态度
- As women we tend to be self-effacing and make light of what we have achieved.
英英释义
adj
双语例句
- My teacher is a very quiet modest self-effacing person.
我的老师是一个很沉默谦虚不爱出锋头的人。 - So the level five is someone, we don't want to sort of get caught up on the fact, that they are necessarily, self-effacing, necessarily shy, that they necessarily have a charisma by-pass.
所以第五级领导者是这样一种人，我们不能只专注于他们的外在层面，比如他们是否谦逊、是否害羞、或是魅力四射。 - 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。 - Demure, self-effacing and discreet, Sarah Brown has played the wife-in-the-background role to perfection.
莎拉.朗内歛端庄、度谦逊、慎低调，她完美扮演幕后夫人的角色。 - This has given rise to speculation that the suggestion was merely intended to burnish the image of a man not known for self-effacing modesty.
这一做法已引发人们猜测，纳扎尔巴耶夫的建议只是在帮助一个对不求闻达的的谦逊品性不知一二的小人塑造形象而已。 - 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。 - A humble apology; essentially humble* and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions-B.K.Malinowski.
谦虚的道歉；本质谦和，他获得了最高礼节的荣誉和声望-B.K.马林诺维斯基。 - People here are rather self-effacing.
这里的人都不怎么爱出风头。 - He spoke eloquently with the self-effacing humour that has endeared him to the American press.
他的言谈雄辩有力，谦逊幽默，这使他很受美国新闻界的欢迎。 - He is still, by the standards of his industry, self-effacing and unassuming, partly because that is his nature and partly because of his paranoia.
以其所在行业的标准衡量，他现在仍可谓自谦而不傲慢，这部分是因为他的本性如此，部分是来自于他的偏执。