humble指“对自己或自己的地位、成就等表现得谦卑的”, 但现在主要指“自感低卑的”
-humbler的不同词性形态
例句
||1: Both productions explore the relationship between tyranny and creativity: the artistic kind, but also the humbler urge to create private love and lives in crushing times. ||2: “The Master and Margarita” proclaims that “manuscripts don’t burn”. ||3: “Collaborators” is less sure of art’s resilience: “the monster always wins”, Stalin insists. “Collaborators” hints at the structural similarities between writing and governing. ||4: Both are lonely work, requiring the imposition of an arbitrary order on unseen, notional individuals—only, in the case of the tyrant, the people are real.
||1:两部新剧都探讨了集权统治和艺术创造之间的关系:在集权压制的时代,关于个人情爱和生活的艺术创作的动力极其微弱。||2:《大师与玛格丽特》宣称“手稿不可被真正焚毁”。||3:《合作者们》则并未如此确定艺术的自我恢复能力,毕竟“怪物们总是胜利”,这是剧中斯大林坚持的台词。||4:这两部作品都算是脱离现实,涉及到对那些未见的个体施加强制命令,只有在暴君统治之下,居中的人民才活在真实当中。
||1:His successor as first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) is humbler in style.||2:Nicola Sturgeon’s speech at her party’s conference in Perth on November 15th lacked the bombast of MrSalmond’s valedictory address the day before.||3:Ms Sturgeon grew up in modest circumstances and owes her smooth rise through the political ranks to judicious alliance building (specifically, a decade-long collaboration with MrSalmond).
||1:他的继任者,作为首届首席部长和苏格兰国民党(SNP)的领袖,相比而言行事谦逊。||2:11月15号,SNP于帕斯召开会议,尼古拉·斯特金在会上的发言并没有像前一天萨尔蒙德的离职演讲那样天花乱坠。||3:斯特金出身平凡,通过明智的联盟建设而在政治头衔上步步升并赢得了今天的政治地位(明确地说,是与萨尔蒙德长达十年的合作)。
That 1MDB and IPIC are beginning to bury the hatchet is probably a relief for bigwigs implicated in the affair, even if many humbler Malaysians are wondering how the billion-or-so dollars immediately due to IPIC will be found.
1MDB与IPIC将化干戈为玉帛,这可能让被卷入此事的人安心,即使很多马来西亚人疑惑为什么因为IPIC而使得上亿的美元被立即发现。
The protagonists would, they say, build up slowly, using humbler creatures than human beings as experimental subjects to start with.
该计划的发起人说,他们会慢慢推进,首先使用比人类低级的生物作为实验对象。
Now a humbler use is being proposed.
如今石墨烯的一种低层次应用被提出来。
adjective
1.(of a thing) of modest pretensions or dimensions.
‘he built the business empire from humble beginnings’
‘Even though my dwelling is both humble and modest I still find the quarterly levy feels like more than I can afford.’
2.(of an action or thought) offered with or affected by a modest estimate of one’s importance.
‘my humble apologies’
‘A welcome change in this reviewer’s humble opinion.’
3.Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one’s importance.
‘I felt very humble when meeting her’
‘These executives and managers are humble, fearless, modest, and willful with endless reserves of energy.’
4.Of low social, administrative, or political rank.
‘she came from a humble, unprivileged background’
‘The man who was to enjoy one of the longest and most distinguished political careers in the post-war period was born into a remarkably humble background, 93 years ago today.’
verb
1.Cause (someone) to feel less important or proud.
‘he was humbled by his many ordeals’
‘Such a swift and humbling defeat could have easily dampened my spirits, but something hooked me in during those few hazy seconds of combat.’
2.Decisively defeat (a sporting opponent previously thought to be superior)
‘Wales were humbled at Cardiff Arms Park by Romania’
‘Kings of cricket once, they were now being humbled by sides, that would have been simply swept aside in the past.’
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