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Modesty is when you do not talk a lot about how good you are, even if you really are good at something. A modest person lets other people notice, instead of saying it themselves. There is another use too: modesty about your body means not wanting to show too much skin, or feeling shy about being seen without clothes.
謙虛（也可指衣著或行為上的端莊）
組成modest (不誇耀自己的) + -y (讓形容詞變成名詞，表示「…的特質」)
同家族的字
- modestmodesty 就是 modest 這個特質的名詞形式
原始詞典資料3 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。
modestynoun/ˈmɒd.ə.sti/
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The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
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Moderate behaviour; reserve.
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Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness.
- ... but the cars of chaste women have either coverings thrown over them, or white sheets hung over; for instance, on the cars of the female part of the family of the deceased Nawabs Khanduran and Muzaffar Khan, there used generally to be fastened thick dirty white cloths, and in like manner also on their palanquins—although one brother was the chief treasurer, and the other a commander of seven thousand men. And most assuredly this is a requirement of modesty; for one whose palanquin or cart is turned out with much splendour, verily the idea comes to the minds of the sight-seers and common people, that in it there must be some lovely one, bright as the morning, the envy of the fairies. Hence, for the cars or palanquins for women to ride in to be greatly embroidered is, in the opinion of certain men of standing, who are worthy to be trusted, of great infamy.
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。