In all modesty:something that you say when you are going to talk about your own achievements. (毫不夸张地、毫不张扬地、尽可能谦虚委婉地)
例句:At VM, the german car manufacturer, which has recently announced the building of a new coporate university, they say they would like to avoid the typical mistakes of corporate universities. The company, in all modesty, calls their new Car Uni ‘the prototype of a new corporate university’. { 例句出处:《剑桥BEC高级真题学生用教材:P75》}
翻译:德国大众汽车公司最近发布了一则声明:公司打算创办企业大学,该公司表示会尽量避免企业大学的一些常见问题,并委婉地将他们的汽车大学称作是:“新型企业大学的雏形。”
注:“in all modesty”与我们口语中常见的“with all due to respect”同属于一种委婉谨慎的表达方式。
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