查询词典 modesties

A profession persists in its fantasies, its ideology, its pretension, its illusions of involvement and control, and is therefore incapable of conceiving new modesties, partial interventions, strategic realignments, compromised positions that might influence, redirect, succeed in limited terms, regroup, begin from scratch even, but will never reestablish control.

一个固执对城市参与和城市控制的自我幻想、理想主义、自命不凡和幻觉的职业将因此而无法构想新的模式或者是部分干预、战略重联、折衷姿态。它可能在某些领域中产生影响或重新置轨甚至取得部分成功，或者它可以重组，甚至从零开始，但却永无可能重建控制。

The circulation, consumption and reproduction of the trilogy have not only testified to its historical significance and literariness, but also invested it with new meanings.

该三部曲的流通、消费与再生产不仅验证了其历史意义及文学性，而切还赋予它以新的意义。

If he thought that he could buy me off, he would be wrong.

如果他认为他可以收买我，那他就大错特错了。