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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I was sure of it," said the geographer, with a satisfied air; "and yet the very proudest of modest men, my illustrious countryman, Chateaubriand, made the inaccurate comparison.
-- His courage and devotion, and the dangers he had run, were all shown up in strong relief by his patron, till the modest boy did not know which way to look, and was obliged to hide his burning cheeks in his sister's arms.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In a modest way I have combated evil, but to take on the Father of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too am-bitious a task.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gen-eral lived on the first floor or flat of the house, as modest alodging as his position permitted.
-- Gania made her acquaintance also, and others were Ferdishenko, an illbred, and would-be witty, young clerk, and Ptitsin, a moneylender of modest and polished manners, who had risen from poverty.
-- Her dress was modest and simple to a degree, dark and elderly in style; but both her face and appearance gave evi-dence that she had seen better days.
-- Without forcing him-self upon the public notice, modest and unobtrusive, this young prince was concerned with much that happened in the world in general.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Plornish, with a modest disavowal of his merits, opened the room door for her readmission, and followed her in with such an exceedingly bald pretence of not having been out at all, that her father might have observed it without being very suspicious.
-- In the modest truthfulness of always keeping in view the greater equality of Mr Gowan's years and the greater attractions of his person and manner, there might have been a little merit.
-- A modest little hired chariot and pair was also frequently to be seen there; in alighting from and entering which vehicle, Miss Fanny fluttered the Marshal's daughters by the display of inaccessible bonnets.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They laced her into a sky-blue dress, which was so tight she could hardly breathe and so low in the neck that modest Meg blushed at herself in the mirror.
-- Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of ex-cellent people by being modest as well as pretty, Meg.'
-- 'I have ever so many wishes, but the pet one is to be an artist, and go to Rome, and do fine pictures, and be the best artist in the whole world,' was Amy's modest desire.
-- Jo smothered a laugh at the sudden change, and when someone gave a modest tap, opened the door with a grim aspect which was anything but hospitable.
-- The pretty, modest girls are never talked about, except respectfully, among gentleman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The coat was wide-skirted; and in that respect like the coat, but, oh how different!The mighty cocked hat was replaced by a modest round one.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley's re-gard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh," cried Miss Steele, looking significantly round at them, "I dare say Lucy's beau is quite as modest and pretty behaved as Miss Dashwood's."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a flowering out of a modest trade principle the world had never witnessed up to that time.
-- She could not begin to believe that she would take the place, modest as her aspirations were.
-- All this he realised, now quite sharply, as he faced the city, cut off from his friends, despoiled of his modest fortune, and even his name, and forced to begin the battle for place and comfort all over again.
-- Slowly at first, then with a modest momentum, and at last the graveward process is in the full swing.
-- One of the actresses playing the part of a modest sweetheart gave notice of leaving and Carrie was selected.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My friend is too modest to answer.
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