英语词汇“self-effacement”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	self-effacement
释义	self-eˈffacement [self- 1 a.] The keeping of oneself out of sight or in the background. 1866Visct. Strangford Selections (1869) II. 319, I am..content to remain unknown, and successful in self-effacement.1883J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. i, The completest private humility and self-effacement.1889Spectator 14 Dec. 847 The skill and self-effacement which mark the book. So self-eˈffacing ppl. a. (hence -eˈffacingly adv.), -eˈffacive a., retiring; self-eˈffacingness. 1902‘H. S. Merriman’ Vultures vi, Miss Netty Cahere was a vision of pink and self-effacing quietness. 1900Academy 25 Aug. 147/1 [He] self-effacingly pulls the curtain aside, and intrudes not at all. 1883Caird Edin. Lect. Hume 23 Nov., In society he was the most self-effacive of men. 1951S. Spender World within World* 167 Forster's strange mixture of qualities—his *self-effacingness combined with a positive assertion of his views.
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