"I beg your excellency’s pardon," interposed the steward in a deprecating manner, "for venturing to observe that it is already two o’clock."

“请大人原谅我冒昧地说一句话，”管家用一种哀求的口吻说道，“现在已经是两点钟了。”

Her mother put on a deprecating look

她母亲露出不赞成的神气来。

He shrugged the suggestion off with a deprecating smile.

他耸耸肩,不以为然地笑了笑,把这项建议搁在一边。

’It just occurred to me you might be interested,’ he would say with a deprecating little laugh whenever he produced a new fragment

他想起一个句子，便带着讨饶的微笑说，“我想你会有兴趣罢。”

||1: The restaurant industry is huge: it turns over an annual $630 billion in America alone. ||2: Yet setting up a restaurant is one of the riskiest ventures. ||3: Around 60% of American eateries close or change ownership within the first three years. ||4: Mr Lander starts the book—and earns the reader’s respect—with his own story, told in taut and self-deprecating style, of how as a 29-year-old, with “absolutely no professional experience” and battling epilepsy, he took over an 18th-century London townhouse and set up L’Escargot. ||5: This innovative restaurant drew a devoted clientele. ||6: Since selling the restaurant (for health reasons) in 1988, he has been the restaurant critic of theFinancial Times (owned by Pearson, a part-owner of this newspaper).

||1:餐饮业的规模巨大：光是美国的年度营业额就高达6300亿美元。||2:然而，开餐厅却是一项高风险事业。||3:在美国，约60%的餐厅在开业后三年之内就会关门大吉或是转手卖出。||4:兰德尔写这本书的时候，把他自己的经历也半是吹嘘半是自嘲地写了进去；他写道他29岁那时，在完全没有工作经验，还得同时与癫痫症对抗的情况下，买下了伦敦市内一幢18世纪的联排寓所，然后开了蜗牛餐厅——这肯定能赢得读者们的钦佩之情。||5:（此后），这家富有新意的餐厅吸引了一批忠实的顾客。||6:1998年，出于健康原因，兰德尔转卖了餐厅，并自此任职《金融时报》，专门撰写餐厅评论。（《金融时报》归培生集团所有，该集团是《金融时报》的合伙人。）

||1:He could seem unworldly.||2:As a minister, he once boarded a plane to a Socialist International conference in Europe without a penny in foreign currency, carrying only a leather-bound volume of Hazlitt.||3:Yet in one sense, he was entirely worldly.||4:He had an instinctive understanding of people.||5:He wrote beautifully and, after overcoming a stammer, was a wonderful orator: humorous, self-deprecating, empathetic.||6:He could be a hater—anyone who failed to perceive the genius of his hero Aneurin Bevan, whose biography he wrote, had best look out—but he was incapable of sustained malevolence.

||1:富特似乎天生不谙世故。||2:作为一位大臣，他曾经在没有一分外币的情况下，仅携带一本黑兹利特的皮面装订书籍，就登上一架飞机，去欧洲出席一个“国际社会主义者”会议。||3:但在某种意义上说，他又老于世故。||4:他对民众悲喜如天才般洞若观火。||5:他文笔优美，而且在克服口吃后成了优秀的演说家，他幽默诙谐、自嘲自谦、善解人意。||6:他也会恨人的—— 如果还有谁看不到富特所撰写的传记中的主人公安奈林·贝文的天才的话， 那可就要小心点——不过他虽然会恨人， 恨意却从不长久。

In this way, tongue-in-cheek humor can be self-deprecating. It is effective when you want to make fun of yourself a bit.

通过这种方式，半开玩笑的幽默可以是自嘲。当你想要略微自嘲时就很有效。

A self-deprecating currency

自我贬值货币

Self-deprecating, even down to his lack of fashion sense, Mr Paulson gives a frank assessment of his strengths and weaknesses.

鲍尔森先生自嘲地说他缺乏时尚感，并且对自己的长处和缺点做了坦率的评价。

Before he is dismissed as yet another has-been, at least it can be said that he has a nicely self-deprecating turn of wit.

但是在他卸任前，其自谦的才智至少还是值得一提。

Moreover, recent releases of Sphinx now provide a native MySQL engine, deprecating the need to run a separate Sphinx daemon.

而且，Sphinx的最新版本现在提供了一个本机MySQL引擎，不需要运行独立的Sphinx守护进程。

In itself, Geithner’s joke was not extraordinary for Washington, where self-deprecating fare is the norm.

盖特纳的笑话本身听起来并不刺耳，毕竟自我贬损在华盛顿是家常便饭。

Returning to the metaphor of interpersonal relations, humble, self-deprecating people generally have little trouble finding friends.

回到人际关系的比喻中，谦虚的，自贬的人一般是很容易找到朋友的。

As a result of that, he’s found himself feeling resentful for not getting what he’s needed (he told me with a self-deprecating laugh).

结果，他发现自己因为没有得到所需之物而心怀愤恨（告诉我这点时，他带着一抹自我抨击的笑）。

Self-deprecating jokes are one thing. Continually apologizing for boring the audience is another.

开玩笑自嘲是一回事，不停的自谦则是另一回事了。

The German chancellor has a special genius for appearing self-deprecating, while subtly hinting that she is surrounded by ridiculous men.

默克尔十分擅长通过自嘲来暗示身边竟是一群愚蠢可笑的男人。

You don’t want to use self-deprecating humor on simply any topic, however. It’s most effectively & appropriately used in:

你可能不想在任何一个简单的问题上都采用自我嘲弄的方法，但是不管怎么样，这在下列情况中是最有效也最恰当的：

He wrote beautifully and, after overcoming a stammer, was a wonderful orator: humorous, self-deprecating, empathetic.

他文笔优美，而且在克服口吃后成了优秀的演说家，他幽默诙谐、自嘲自谦、善解人意。

By revealing your vulnerable moments and being self-deprecating, you open yourself up much more to the humorous aspects of life.

要是自曝短处，自我嘲笑，你就更加融入幽默的生活方式了。

This habit of passing on business wisdom with dollops of self-deprecating humour is now in full flow.

以自嘲方式来阐释商业智慧的这种习惯正在源源不断地展现出来。

Under such circumstances, it is compulsory for any English person to make a self-deprecating remark and Martin did not fail me.

在这种情况下，是英国人都难免会自谦一番，而马丁也没有让我失望。

The approach starts by moving to a regional hub and deprecating local servers.

这种方法在开始时会移动到一个区域性的轴心并分解本地服务器。

Columnists shared their self-deprecating tales of Googling themselves.

专栏作家分享他们用Google搜索自已的自嘲故事。

Self-deprecating humor is best, but that can also be taken too far.

自谦的幽默是最好的，但也有可能走得太远。

The author’s tone is self-deprecating, self-righteous and rather guilty in turn.

作者的口吻有些自贬，甚至自以为是，用有罪恶感形容更恰当。

self-deprecating

a.1. 自贬的