Humble

(verb.) cause to be unpretentious; 'This experience will humble him'.

(adj.) marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; 'a humble apology'; 'essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions'- B.K.Malinowski .

(adj.) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) .

(adj.) low or inferior in station or quality; 'a humble cottage'; 'a lowly parish priest'; 'a modest man of the people'; 'small beginnings' .

录入:丽贝卡

• As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Humble bees alone visit red clover, as other bees cannot reach the nectar. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I made my humble acknowledgments to his highness for so great a favour. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Oh, don't suppose that I claim attention for My humble words! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He was now at my feet, the humble sighing, adoring, suppliant lover again. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• My heart was deeply and most deservedly humbled as I mused over the fire for an hour or more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The humbled mutineer smelt it, tasted it, and returned to his seat. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• We err, we fall, we are humbled; then we walk more carefully. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her feelings are concentrated in one--pride; and that needs humbling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It really seems as if he had been playing with you in this way in revenge for my humbling him as I did by standing up against him at first. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• So with the humbler houses in the little street, the inner firelight shining on the panes as the outer twilight darkened. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In the other corner was a bed of much humbler pretensions, and evidently designed for _use_. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, he answered, smiling, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and humbler women, is a very good sport for a philosophical frequenter of Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I am but the incumbent of a poor country parish: my aid must be of the humblest sort. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I then put myself in the most supplicating posture, and spoke in the humblest accent, but received no answer. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them--they are born timid and tyrants and maltreat those who are humblest before them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It was the delight of Adrian and myself to wait on Clara, naming her the little queen of the world, ourselves her humblest servitors. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The chapel of the Syrians is not handsome; that of the Copts is the humblest of them all. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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