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It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
He says he never went hungry, but his parents made only a modest living selling merchandise door-to-door, on instalment plans.
He said he had only a modest role as director general of sports and parliamentary leader of the Falangist movement.
XP has a few rules and a modest number of practices, all of which are easy to follow.
Economy is still expanding at a reasonably solid pace , and there is only expected to be a modest increase in US interest rates .
He also set himself up as a slaveholder on a modest estate he would build into a major cotton plantation, the Hermitage.
And I give it a modest mass so that the mass of the car is not going to be too high 200 kilograms.
Barzini: We're grateful to Don Corleone for calling this meeting. We all know him as a man of his word, a modest man who listens to reason.
The Kansas City Fed president said some weak data had not shaken his basic forecast of a modest recovery this year.
'We'll have a modest partnership interest, ' Mr. Buffett said in an interview, though he didn't specify how much he would invest.
The temple, which had a relaxed atmosphere, was situated on the second floor with a modest-sized temple room.
Indeed, some had been hoping for a modest decline in the first quarter to take some of the heat out of the market.
Mr Bloomberg, born in 1942 , grew up in a modest household in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of a book- keeper for a dairy company .
The Sonata mid-size sedan was up a modest 3. 9%, but remained the company's best-seller. The redesigned Elantra compact was a strong second.
Trade between high-wage countries tends to be a modest win for all, or almost all, concerned.
M's wife, a modest and devoted woman, was glad to see her husband relieved of his daily rounds.
And that argues for parking at least a modest portion of your savings in foreign currencies with more solid fundamentals.
It's a modest project, and that reading room seemed to me like the bottom of a well when it was empty that morning.
It was on West Hill, at the growing northwest edge of Akron and a modest step up in the world.
It was a modest effort, as it should have been; as the saying goes, I had much to be modest about.
Though only a modest step it is an important one, as Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, underlined this week.
He made a modest ramark, " This should be predetermined by the female side. After all it is not objective to score myself. "
A modest pension of $7 a week in 1900 would be worth $184 a week today if it had been linked to consumer prices.
"The industry is forecasting a modest increase in new vehicle sales for the year ahead with growth between one and two per cent, " he said.
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有节制的艺术

...教授张增健也说过：“要说翻译是门艺术，那也是一种‘有节制的艺术’（a modest art）。翻译中艺术创造的自由度十分有限。” …
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