不張揚自己的成就
最直接的一支：把「不往前推」用在自己的能力與功勞上。
humbly · r · C1
In a way that shows you do not want to talk about your abilities or the good things you have done.
謙虛地
核心畫面
One way to picture it: someone deliberately keeps themselves small in front of others — not showing off what they have, what they did, or even their own body. The volume is turned down on purpose.
一個人刻意把自己「調小」——手上有的、做過的、甚至身體本身，都不往前推出去讓人看。他不是沒有東西可展示，而是選擇不展…更多收起
一個人刻意把自己「調小」——手上有的、做過的、甚至身體本身，都不往前推出去讓人看。他不是沒有東西可展示，而是選擇不展示；音量是自己轉小的。這個「不張揚」的動作，就是 modestly 每一種用法底下同一個姿勢：對成就是如此，對價格與規模是如此，對身體也是如此。Three branches
程度不大、規模不大
同一個「調小」的姿勢，從人身上移到數字與規模上：不是人在低調，是數量本身就不張揚。
moderately · r · C1
To a degree that is not very great, big, or expensive — used about price, growth, success, or how much something changes.
適度地
對身體的不外顯
還是「不把自己推出去讓人看」，只是這次被收起來的是身體，而不是功勞。
shyly about the body · r · C1
In a shy way about showing your body, because you get embarrassed easily and do not want that kind of attention.
害羞地
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
modestlyadv
- 1
In a modest manner; with humility.
- The man bowed modestly and left the dinner table.
- An hour later, Trump and Starmer were gathered in the modestly named Donald J Trump Ballroom for the press conference proper.
- 2
To a small degree.
- These new shuttlelike craft might modestly reduce the cost of getting to low earth orbit.
- One of several factors to his success this election was modestly boosting his support among men, a shift concentrated among younger voters, according to AP VoteCast, survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。