英:[ˌʌnəˈsju:mɪŋ]
美:[ˌʌnəˈsumɪŋ]
英:[ˌʌnəˈsju:mɪŋ]
美:[ˌʌnəˈsumɪŋ]
un·as·sum·ing
uhn su mIng
unassumingly (adv.), unassumingness (n.)
Adjective
1. not arrogant or presuming;
"unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"
"a shy retiring girl"
"不炫耀,谦虚的",1726年,来自 un-(1)"不" + assume(v.)的现在分词。相关词汇: Unassumingly。
The first known use of unassuming was in 1722
unaware1 of 2adverb
unawares
unaware2 of 2adjective
not aware : ignorant
unaware1 of 2adverb
unawares
unaware2 of 2adjective
not aware : ignorant
unavoidableadjective
not avoidable : inevitable
the accident was unavoidable
unavoidableadjective
not avoidable : inevitable
the accident was unavoidable
unavailingadjective
of no use : not successful : futile
unattractiveadjective
not attractive : plain
unattachedadjective
not attached
not married or engaged
unassumingadjective
not pretentious : modest an unassuming neighborhood
an unassuming manner
1 Saddled with an archetypal “lad” who crushed her artistic soul, Dawn’s romantic muse was finally awoken by unassuming colleague Tim when he gave her some oil paints as a leaving present.
2 “This malfeasance must be stopped” was what the unassuming janitor Alfred T. Slipper always said before he was transformed into the amazing Incandesto and became a towering, crime-fighting pillar of light.
3 In what must be one of his final segments for the show before he moves to “SNL”, unassuming “Daily Show” Michael Che goes after the biggest drug cartel in America: the pharmaceutical companies.
4 He is emphatically a retiring and unassuming man.
他的确是一个与世无争和谦虚纯朴的人。
5 Heed the call to an amazing breakfast at Wildroot Café and Market, tucked behind an unassuming facade and decorated with bright green furniture.
6 A parking lotin Palm Desert is an unassuming start for this 20-mile cycle adventure, which involves riding along a section of the San Andreas Fault.
7 When the day came, Vanessa picked me up and together we drove to an unassuming flat near Wicker Park.
8 Daniel is sweet, unassuming, naïve, passive, “his softly waving hair somehow projecting innocence and pure intentions.”
9 My young are unassuming.
是我年轻的张扬.
10 “Yet he was always so quiet and unassuming, which I really admired about him.”
11 The dancer, filmed on a residential street on a cloudy day, is an unassuming swan.
12 Warmth, openness, kindness, and unassuming friendliness are vanishing from everyday public contacts.
温馨,开朗,友善,还有不装腔做势的友谊,正在日常公共生活的接触中消失。
13 That important man is very unassuming in his manner.
那个要人彬彬有礼,是一位毫不摆架子的人.
14 Relaxed, engaging and above all unassuming, there was an almost coffee break-like atmosphere to the couples' conversations, which regularly helped them to get the goods out of their guests.
15 On a computer screen, the still life “Basket of Wild Strawberries” by the 18th-century French painter Jean Siméon Chardin is quiet and unassuming.
16 And yet, Puig says, "it comes across as effortless and unassuming. 'Boyhood' is an epic masterpiece that seems wholly unconcerned with trying to be one."
17 But she tried anyway: ‘“And here begins the tale of mistletoe, that most unassuming and gentlest of plants.
18 Her father, Salvador, is a santeria priest, an unassuming, soft-spoken man, black as the blackest Africans.
19 Today, an unassuming stone obelisk stands at the site of Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry to commemorate the stand he took.
20 The small, unassuming space, close to the Sugamo station on the JR Yamanote line, is difficult to get into for different reasons: They take no reservations and operate on a ticket system.
1 谦逊的
self-humbling small low decent humble lowly unobtrusive maidenly unostentatious unpretending unpresuming unpresumptuous modest unpretentious self-effacing demure unassertive unproud meek diffident on knees homely deferential shamefaced
2 不傲慢的
3 不出风头
4 不爱炫耀的
5 谦逊
self-humbling small low decent humble lowly unobtrusive maidenly unostentatious unpretending unpresuming unpresumptuous humbly humility modesty self-humiliation modest unpretentious self-effacing meek diffident stoop diffidence on knees homely demure pudency modestly
7 不装腔作势的
8 不爱出风头的
9 谦虚的