One way to picture it: someone deliberately keeps themselves small in front of others — not showing off what they have, what they did, or even their own body. The volume is turned down on purpose.

一個人刻意把自己「調小」——手上有的、做過的、甚至身體本身,都不往前推出去讓人看。他不是沒有東西可展示,而是選擇不展示;音量是自己轉小的。這個「不張揚」的動作,就是 modestly 每一種用法底下同一個姿勢:對成就是如此,對價格與規模是如此,對身體也是如此。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

modestlyadv

  • 1

    In a modest manner; with humility.

    • The man bowed modestly and left the dinner table.
    • An hour later, Trump and Starmer were gathered in the modestly named Donald J Trump Ballroom for the press conference proper.
  • 2

    To a small degree.

    • These new shuttlelike craft might modestly reduce the cost of getting to low earth orbit.
    • One of several factors to his success this election was modestly boosting his support among men, a shift concentrated among younger voters, according to AP VoteCast, survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。