modestly是什么意思

A modest house or other building is not large or expensive.

You use modest to describe something such as an amount, rate, or improvement which is fairly small.

If you say that someone is modest, you approve of them because they do not talk much about their abilities or achievements.

You can describe a woman as modest when she avoids doing or wearing anything that might cause men to have sexual feelings towards her. You can also describe her clothes or behaviour as modest .