unpretending

1 They had now reached the door of the small, unpretending house of this wealthy man.

2 The book is unpretending.

这书很质朴。

3 He runs and swings freely and smiles an unpretending Nebraska smile.

4 It is principally as a curiosity of literature that it will be read, as it does not narrate any very novel or original adventures, and the style is very simple and unpretending.

5 Happily for her, the young man seemed to be simple and unpretending; otherwise he would at once have built wild castles in the air.

6 The house was built in the sixteenth century, and was a quaint, though unpretending roadside tavern with a high-pitched, red-tiled roof.

7 When he had made an end of his unpretending meal, he leaned back again in his chair.

8 The unpretending praise thee, because thou has taken upon thyself the heroic burdens that are too heavy for them.

没啥雄心壮志的人赞颂你，因为你把他们承担不起的英雄事业自己担当起来了。

9 Franklin’s father, though he was plain and unpretending in his manners, was a very sensible and well-informed man, and he possessed a sound judgment and an excellent understanding.

10 In fact nothing could well be more simple — more utterly unpretending than this cottage.

11 I know not indeed of any work on the principles of free government that is to be compared, in instruction and intrinsic value, to this small and unpretending volume....

12 We may dismiss the idea that they were hewn out of the quarry in this specially costly form, and fetched all the way from Barnack by the builders of this little unpretending church.

13 The Hostel is now an unpretending homestead, much rebuilt, yet retaining bits of thirteenth century work still untouched and therefore of interest.

14 There we staid a few days at an unpretending, neat hotel, of small dimensions—not the chief hotel, where the mistress, we found, was unaccommodating and disobliging—a very rare thing in America.

15 Why, not the most captious and unbelieving critic of them all can find fault with so modest and unpretending a title.

16 There was no affectation about him; he was almost as much of a plain, unpretending soldier as General Grant himself.

17 The unpretending narrative, which serves to embody the several subjects treated of, has the single merit of being composed of little incidents taken from real life.

18 What I have—wife, position, independence—I owe to an opportunity for exercising the very simple and unpretending combination of qualities that goes by the name of ability.

19 an unpretending manner that makes her quite a winning performer

20 Mr. Baguet was a bachelor of about forty, living in pleasant apartments, in an unpretending and gentlemanly style.

1 谦逊的

self-humbling small low decent humble lowly unassuming unobtrusive maidenly unostentatious unpresuming unpresumptuous modest homely unpretentious demure deferential unassertive shamefaced

2 不矫饰的

folksy unpretentious penny plain

3 不炫耀的

unostentatious unshowy

4 谦逊

self-humbling small low decent humble lowly unassuming unobtrusive maidenly unostentatious unpresuming unpresumptuous humbly humility modesty self-humiliation modest homely unpretentious demure pudency

5 质朴的

plain homemade provincial primitive rustic funky untutored countrified gutty silly

6 朴实无华

modest funky chaste unpretentious unadorned folksy unostentatious folkish no-frills chastity gracility

7 不装腔作势的

unassuming unpretentious unstudied

8 不装模作样的

unposed unpresuming

9 朴实无华的

modest funky chaste unpretentious unadorned folksy unostentatious folkish no-frills

10 质朴

plain homemade provincial primitive rustic funky untutored countrified gutty silly simplicity provincialism unsophistication