self-effacing
英 [selfiˈfeisiŋ] 美 [ˌsɛlfɪˈfesɪŋ]

adj.

不出风头的；不喜出风头的；谦让的；谦卑的

英英释义

self-effacing[ 'selfə'feisiŋ ]

• adj.reluctant to draw attention to yourself

  同义词：reticentretiring

双语例句

1. She's brilliant but self-effacing.
   她才华横溢而不露锋芒。

权威例句

The social impact of self-effacing attributions: The Chinese case.
Brutally unfair tactics totally ok now: On self-effacing games and unachievements
Self-effacing wit as a response to oppression: dynamics in ethnic humor
Differences in self-effacing behavior between European and Japanese Americans: Effect on competence evaluations.
The Double: Dostoevskij's Self-Effacing Narrative
Another Type of Self-serving Bias: Coexistence of Self-effacing and Group-serving Tendencies in Attribution in the Japanese Culture
Virtue ethics is self-effacing
Reading Hawking’s Presence: An Interview with a Self‐Effacing Man
The Effect of Self-serving and Self-effacing Attribution on College Students' Interpersonal Communication
Hobbes’s Self‐effacing Natural Law Theory