| 英语单词 | unassuming |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ˌʌnə'sjuːmɪŋ] 美 [ˌʌnə'suːmɪŋ] |
| 中文释义 | adj.谦逊的;不装腔作势的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) He is emphatically a retiring and unassuming man. (2) I found him to be unassuming and easy to get along with. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他的确是一个与世无争和谦虚纯朴的人。 (2) 我发现他没有架子,很好相处。 |
| vocabulary简明 | The word unassuming means modest, lacking in arrogance, pleasant, or polite. You'll find that some of the most unassuming people are actually the most interesting and powerful of all. They're just decent enough not to display it all the time. |
| vocabulary扩展 | It's been said that when you assume, you make an ass of you and me: that's because when you assume you draw conclusions that you shouldn't. If you're unassuming, you don't make that mistake. Even though he was a rock star, I found Jason to be unassuming and delightful. He treated everyone like a friend. It's the height of irony that the real Wizard of Oz turns out to be an unassuming country gentleman, when the image he projected was of fearsome, raw, tyrannical power. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]低调的;谦逊的;不招摇的 If you describe a person or their behaviour as unassuming, you approve of them because they are quiet and do not try to appear important. [approval]
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