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Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house that looked small and modest in the midst of all that glory.

卡罗琳指向一座保存完好的A字型屋子。

That's her home, and she pointed to a well-kept A-frame house that looked small and modest in the midst of all that glory.

卡萝琳指着一栋维护良好的房子，尽管这房子在这一大片辉煌中显得是这样地渺小而平凡。

By contrast, Pauline, her Corsican childhood spent in the relatively modest Bonaparte household in Ajaccio, was a spoilt, sexually promiscuous airhead.

与之相反的是，尽管波琳在科西嘉岛的阿雅克修一个保守的波拿巴家庭度过了童年，却是一个性格娇纵、生活糜烂的女子。

Comedy of outraged manners,'' an altogether fair, even slightly modest, assessment.

败坏风尚的喜剧，这个评价总而言之是公正的，也略为过于谨慎。

However, national data from Michigan State University's Collegiate Employment Research Institute suggests the US MBA market is tight, with modest growth of 7 percent expected.

然而，来自密歇根州州立大学大学生就业研究所的数据表明美国的MBA市场仍然紧张，仅仅有7%的增长预期。

At Monte Carlo he made a modest killing at the chemin de fer table, but lost at poker.

在蒙特卡洛，他在赌十一点的牌桌上小赢了一把，但是在扑克牌赌中又输了。

The carriage stopped before a modest-looking house , which, however, did not have the appearance of a private mansion

四轮马车在一所房子前面停了下来，这所房子外表虽然很平常，但看起来不象是私人住宅。

One or two Chinese refineries will convert to fuels only sites between 2007 and 2011, but there is still a net rise in Chinese wax output. Petroleum wax supplies from all regions will see modest growth from plants currently operating via capacity creep, improved utilization and low cost recovery of petroleum wax from cracking.

中国的一两家炼油厂还将在2007至2011年间专向燃料生产，但是中国的石蜡产出仍然还会保持净增长，中国各地区的工厂在职能分解后，通过管理恢复，产量缓慢爬升，石蜡利用率提高，成本降低，石蜡产量有小幅的增长。

She had been born to a modest family but grew up in the ephemeral splendour of the banana company, from which she at least had retained her rich girl's good education at the Colegio de la Presentacion de la Santisima Virgen in Santa Marta.

她出生于一个简朴的家庭，但是成长于香蕉公司兴旺发达的那一短时期，因而得以接受到良好的教育。

Inspired to make his own contribution, astronomer Ralf Vandebergh set out to record images of some historic spacecraft in Earth orbit -- captured with his own modest equipment and a hand-guided, 10-inch, Newtonian reflecting telescope.

说明：今年，美国航天局祝贺其成立50周年，天文学家 Ralf Vandebergh 决定作出一些自己的贡献，用他10英寸的牛顿反射式望远镜在地球上拍摄记录下航天器在地球轨道上的历史性的瞬间。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。