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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Added to this, his manner was modest and unassuming; he knew when to be silent, yet never allowed himself to be trampled upon.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's quite wonderful enough for my modest wants," said Mr. Thomas Marvel.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- David composed his features into what he intended should express an air of modest humility, before he meekly replied: 'Little be the praise to such a worm as I.
-- A girl, selected for the task by her rank and qualifications, commenced by modest allusions to the qualities of the de-ceased warrior, embellishing her expressions with those oriental images that the Indians have probably brought with them from the extremes of the other continent, and which form of themselves a link to connect the ancient his-tories of the two worlds.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My own hotel was modest enough, but it was magnificent in comparison with this.
-- I looked in often on the Stroeves, and sometimes shared their modest fare.
-- It was a very modest position that he occupied, and there was about him an air of straitened circumstance.
-- I remembered having heard that her sister, Mrs. MacAndrew, outliving her husband but a couple of years, had left money to Mrs. Strickland; and by the look of the house and the trim maid who opened the door I judged that it was a sum adequate to keep the widow in modest comfort.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Such a fresh, blooming, modest little bud, neighbour,' said Quilp, nursing his short leg, and making his eyes twinkle very much; 'such a chubby, rosy, cosy, little Nell!'
-- CHAPTER 13Daniel Quilp of Tower Hill, and Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks in the city of London, Gentleman, one of her Majesty's attornies of the Courts of the King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster and a solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, slumbered on, unconscious and unsuspicious of any mischance, until a knocking on the street door, often repeated and gradually mounting up from a modest single rap to a perfect battery of knocks, fired in long discharges with a very short interval between, caused the said Daniel Quilp to struggle into a horizontal position, and to stare at the ceiling with a drowsy indifference, betokening that he heard the noise and rather wondered at the same, and couldn't be at the trouble of bestowing any further thought upon the subject.
-- The child bore upon her arm the little basket with her flowers, and sometimes stopped, with timid and modest looks, to offer them at some gay carriage; but alas!there were many bolder beggars there, gipsies who promised husbands, and other adepts in their trade, and although some ladies smiled gently as they shook their heads, and others cried to the gentlemen beside them 'See, what a pretty face!'
-- It was not until she was in the act of getting down the cup, and drawing a long breath after the exertion of causing its contents to disappear, that the lady of the caravan beheld an old man and a young child walking slowly by, and glancing at her proceedings with eyes of modest but hungry admiration.
-- Mr Swiveller replied that he had very recently been assuaging the pangs of thirst, but that he was still open to 'a modest quencher,' if the materials were at hand.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind them stood the more modest women in white 'kerchiefs and gray caftans and ancient skirts, in shoes or bast slippers.
-- He left the house in the morning, hired two modest and not over-clean furnished rooms near the prison, and went to his lawyer.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Does our friend eke out his modest income with a crossing?
-- In part it was a modest cancan, in part a step dance, in part a skirt dance (so far as my tail-coat permitted), and in part original.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was no isolated bush, nor modest brushwood, at the bottom of lofty trees.
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