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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Aye, that may suit your humble ideas of yourself; I know what a modest creature you are; but it will not satisfy your friends to have you taking up with any thing that may offer, any in-ferior, commonplace situation, in a family not moving in a certain circle, or able to command the elegancies of life.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime-pits of Siddim; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
-- "Such a modest man as he is!"
-- expostulated the modest man, forcing a laugh to bury his concern.
-- "Thank you very much," said Oak, in the modest tone good manners demanded, thinking, however, that he would never let Bathsheba see him playing the flute; in this resolve showing a discretion equal to that related to its sagacious inventress, the divine Minerva herself.
-- THE HOMESTEAD A VISITOR HALF-CONFIDENCESBy daylight, the bower of Oak's new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the memorial hall upon a small estate around it, now altogether effaced as a distinct property, and merged in the vast tract of a non-resident landlord, which comprised several such modest demesnes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Melanie, however, did not seem to mind the smells, the wounds or the nakedness, which Scarlett thought strangein one who was the most timorous and modest of women.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I asked him, with a modest patronage.
-- But I made a modest reply, and we shook hands warmly.
-- Biddy, looking very neat and modest in her black dress, went quietly here and there, and was very helpful.
-- There was something so natural and winning in Clara's resigned way of looking at these stores in detail, as Herbert pointed them out; and something so confiding, loving, and innocent in her modest manner of yielding herself to Herbert's embracing arm; and something so gentle in her, so much needing protection on Mill Pond Bank, by Chinks's Basin, and the Old Green Copper Rope-walk, with Old Barley growling in the beam,--that I would not have undone the engagement between her and Herbert for all the money in the pocket-book I had never opened.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had also ob-served how modest I was in my nature, how nicely I regarded my honour, and what an indignity I should conceive it, to be exposed for money as a public spectacle, to the meanest of the people.
-- I afterwards saw five or six of different ages, the youngest not above two hundred years old, who were brought to me at several times by some of my friends; but although they were told, 'that I was a great traveller, and had seen all the world,' they had not the least curiosity to ask me a question; only desired 'I would give them slum-skudask,' or a token of remembrance; which is a modest way of begging, to avoid the law, that strictly forbids it, because they are provided for by the public, although indeed with a very scanty allowance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby.
-- Louisa stood looking at the pretty modest head, as it drooped abashed before her, until it was raised again to glance at her face.
-- Her repetition of this mistake covered Mrs. Sparsit with modest confusion; but indeed, she said, it seemed so natural to say Miss Gradgrind: whereas, to persuade herself that the young lady whom she had had the happiness of knowing from a child could be really and truly Mrs. Bounderby, she found almost impossible.
-- The child-like ingenuousness with which his visitor spoke, her modest fearlessness, her truthfulness which put all artifice aside, her entire forgetfulness of herself in her earnest quiet holding to the object with which she had come; all this, together with her reliance on his easily given promise which in itself shamed him presented something in which he was so inexperienced, and against which he knew any of his usual weapons would fall so powerless; that not a word could he rally to his relief.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This modest scholar spoke no languages save Icelandic and Latin.
-- He was modest in his glory, but his reputation only increased.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His manner was often offensively supercilious, and then again modest and self-effacing, almost tremulous.
-- But Hilda was consistently modest and maidenly.
-- But Daniele's wife would be one of those sweet Venetian women of the people whom one still sees, modest and flower-like in the back of that labyrinth of a town.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The business was of too modest a character to support a life-size Highlander, but it maintained a little one on a bracket on the door-post, who looked like a fallen Cherub that had found it necessary to take to a kilt.
-- The Father of the Marshalsea said, with a shrug of modest self-depreciation, 'Oh!You might be like me, my dear Frederick; you might be, if you chose!'
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