modest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 谦虚的; 适度的; 羞怯的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat and in its Christmas dress; but the customers were all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that they tumbled up against each other at the door, crashing their wicker baskets wildly, and left their purchases upon the counter, and came running back to fetch them, and com-mitted hundreds of the like mistakes, in the best humour possible; while the Grocer and his people were so frank and fresh that the polished hearts with which they fastened their aprons behind might have been their own, worn out-side for general inspection, and for Christmas daws to peck at if they chose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rather wishing his modest adjective away, Mr. Lorry re-plied, 'No, no, no.
-- Her dinners, of a very modest quality, were so well cooked and so well served, and so neat in their contriv-ances, half English and half French, that nothing could be better.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excuse me a minute..." A secretary came in, with respectful familiarity and the modest consciousness, characteristic of every secretary, of superiority to his chief in the knowledge of their business; he went up to Oblonsky with some papers, and began, under pretense of asking a question, to explain some objection.
-- He begged pardon, and was getting into the carriage, but felt he must glance at her once more; not that she was very beautiful, not on account of the elegance and modest grace which were apparent in her whole figure, but because in the expression of her charming face, as she passed close by him, there was something peculiarly caressing and soft.
-- But he could not say "a fool," because Sviazhsky was unmistakably clever, and moreover, a highly cultivated man, who was exceptionally modest over his culture.
-- Chapter 9 The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.
-- He was a modest man, but he could not help seeing it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By eight o'clock Passepartout had packed the modest carpet-bag, containing the wardrobes of his master and himself; then, still troubled in mind, he carefully shut the door of his room, and descended to Mr. Fogg.
-- His first care, after being thus "Japanesed," was to enter a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half a bird and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for whom dinner was as yet a problem to be solved.
-- Some the more well-to-do, no doubt wore short, open, black silk dresses, under a hood or modest shawl; others were habited in Indian fashion.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the modest young scientist.
-- If Martin really desired his help (Gottlieb could be as modest personally as he was egotistic and swaggering in competitive science), he would make the boy's career his own.
-- It furnished excellent antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus, as well as the purest of official preparations, with the plainest and most official-looking labels on the swaggeringly modest brown bottles.
-- V In the hot night desultory students wandered up to the door of the lecture-hall, scanned the modest Sondelius poster, and ambled away.
-- With modest indignation she refused to be examined, and as he went away she could be heard weeping at the insult, while the preacher cursed him from the doorstep.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now she was a modestly and poorly-dressed young girl, very young, indeed, almost like a child, with a modest and refined manner, with a candid but some-what frightened-looking face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He carried his head on one side,partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modestpropitiation of everybody else.
-- I was going tosuggest, with a modest sense of my youth and the familiarity I hadbeen already guilty of, that I had better give him the full benefit ofthat name, when my aunt went on to say- 'But don't you call himby it, whatever you do.
-- I am a sensiblefellow, I believe- I believe, on looking back, I mean- and modest Iam sure; but all this goes on notwithstanding.
-- Finding by degrees, however, that I was sober, and (I hope) that Iwas a modest young gentleman, Mrs. Waterbrook softenedtowards me considerably, and inquired, firstly, if I went much intothe parks, and secondly, if I went much into society.
-- If I rang thebell impatiently, after half a dozen unavailing modest pulls, andshe appeared at last- which was not by any means to be reliedupon- she would appear with a reproachful aspect, sink breathlesson a chair near the door, lay her hand upon her nankeen bosom,and become so ill, that I was glad, at any sacrifice of brandy oranything else, to get rid of her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, my dear little modest Harriet, depend upon it the picture will not be in Bond-street till just before he mounts his horse to-morrow.
-- She might never have thought of him but for me; and certainly never would have thought of him with hope, if I had not assured her of his at-tachment, for she is as modest and humble as I used to think him.
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