humble的意思|humble的解释-里氏词典

Humble \Hum"ble\, a. [Compar. {Humbler}; superl. {Humblest}.]
[F., fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth,
ground. See {Homage}, and cf. {Chameleon}, {Humiliate}.]
1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or
magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble
cottage.

THy humble nest built on the ground. --Cowley.

2. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's
self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's
self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands
of God; lowly; waek; modest.

God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble. --Jas. iv. 6.

She should be humble who would please. --Prior.

Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of
our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
nation. --Washington.

{Humble plant} (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the
genus {Mimosa} ({Mimosa sensitiva}).

{To eat humble pie}, to endure mortification; to submit or
apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or
humilitation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the
entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served
to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See
{Humbles}. --Halliwell. --Thackeray.

Humble \Hum"ble\, a.
Hornless. See {Hummel}. [Scot.]

Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Humbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Humbling}.]
1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or
exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's
plagues
Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak.

The genius which humbled six marshals of France.
--Macaulay.

2. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or
arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make
meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6.

Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace;
degrade.

Griffith plays a humble secretary working for Allied Intelligence (Michael Douglas) in pre-Blitz London.
In an outpouring of emotion, tens of thousands of Chileans lined the streets to view the casket of toppled Marxist President Salvador Allende, whose remains were unearthed from a humble grave for an honorable burial.
Welcome to the upscale McDonald's _ where the humble Big Mac is served in a veritable temple, featuring a uniformed doorman, a pianist performing on a black baby grand, and even an electronic ticker for brokers bingeing on junk bonds and junk food.
The appeals court said the backstretchers' living quarters, though temporary and humble, must be treated as their homes.
Martinez's body lay on the sidewalk in front of his humble home an hour after the vehicle parked in front of it exploded at 6:20 a.m.
'Never show off, be humble,' he advises.
When all is said and done, a politician's role is a humble one.
Tom Parr is chairman of Colefax & Fowler, which perhaps more than any other decorating company, symbolises the countrified look, the world of chintz and 'humble elegance'.
Mr John Major and Mr Neil Kinnock hail from similarly humble backgrounds.
Jackson has always cited humble beginnings as a source of strength.
The humble slug, a gastropod land mollusk (genus "Limax"), is no beauty.
Bob Dole, said Mr. Thurmond, "rose from humble beginnings."
Bit hard to believe - given that he got the chairman's job at 38 and has been doing it for nearly 20 years. True, Sir Paul's grandfather started at Vaux as a humble accountant in 1896, and the family now owns less than 1 per cent of the company.
"This plebian, having aspirations beyond his humble station in life, wandered beyond the confines of his own pastures and sought the society of the adolescent and unsophisticated Martha," Justice John Barnes wrote.
The humble unit trust has long been due an overhaul.
He is remembered by many as a humble and compassionate man.
A humble serving girl comes to the front of the crowd, dressed in rags.
He is the son of itinerant fruit-pickers and likes to tell the story of his humble beginnings, how he overcame a speech impediment, worked his way through college, and went on to gain the House seat that had been held by former House Speaker Carl Albert.
The Met isn't "ever so humble" but it has been one of her special homes, where she is always happily greeted, for almost three decades.
Mr. Barry, though appearing humble about his personal failings, stopped well short of admitting to any criminal guilt.
"Being there can humble a person," says Mr. Brown. Before becoming a professional baseball player, Mr. Brown spent two years in state prison in Ohio on charges of breaking and entering.
There is something very humble in its beauty that kind of matches a lot of the people that worship here." Though they were planted in a less than ideal climate, the seeds of a new investment product appear to be taking root on Wall Street.
While seeming humble, and cutting a few feet here and a few inches there, the museum is still doing exactly what it shouldn't and needn't be doing: planning to mess with a 20th-century monument.
Nearly 1,000m above sea level, on the barren, treeless plateau of the high Andes, the humble houses of Cerro de Pasco cluster around a gaping open-cast pit.
Nelson concludes the shamrock is merely a humble clover too often dressed up in "colorful legend and sentimental nonsense." The word shamrock derives from Seamrog, Irish for "little clover," he said.
"Anyone can be buried here, the humble and the eminent," said Mrs. Pateman.
The humble hero of "Bismarck," dark-skinned son of a German father and Tamil mother, quietly accepts his hard life, his fair-skinned sister's contempt, and an opportunity to help someone less fortunate than himself: a street girl with leprosy.
But what else could she conclude, after shaking the painful truth out of all those dusty old documents with the same relentless vigor she demonstrated at 95 in her humble kitchen in her hometown of Marshall, shaking a nest of spiders out of her toaster?
As much as Mr. Von Laue admires Soviet officials, he praises Mao Tse-tung even more, for such things as his "humility" and his "willingness to learn dialectically, that is, to analyze the inevitable mistakes in a humble and nonviolent mood."
Both have risen from humble backgrounds on the strength of their ability and drive. But the decision to involve the Bank more closely in interest rate policy has deeper roots than the good relationship between two successful men.

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