这是一道词汇填空题,题目如下:
对Scherezade Garcia 2019年壁画Blame It on the Bean: The Power of Coffee的随意描述可能让这件作品_____——一幅陈列在咖啡馆中的画,描绘了三名女性喝咖啡,听起来似乎并不特别引人注目——但事实上,这件作品是一幅复杂而富有张力的艺术创作,对性别和殖民遗留问题进行了深入的思考,值得认真对待。
备选项:
A) shrewd
B) pretentious
C) unassuming
D) incongruous
正确答案:
C) unassuming
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unassuming
adj.不爱出风头的;不爱炫耀的;谦逊的
not wanting to draw attention to yourself or to your abilities or status
例句:
He's a man of few words, very polite and unassuming.
他话不多,很有礼貌,为人谦和。
shrewd
adj.精明的;敏锐的;有眼光的;精于盘算的
clever at understanding and making judgements about a situation
例句:
She is a shrewd judge of character.
她看人看得很准。
pretentious
adj.炫耀的;虚夸的;自命不凡的
trying to appear important, intelligent, etc. in order to impress other people; trying to be sth that you are not, in order to impress
例句:
It was just an ordinary house — nothing pretentious.
那只是一座普通的房子,没有故作特别。
incongruous
adj.不合适的;不相称的;不协调的
strange, and not suitable in a particular situation
例句:
Such traditional methods seem incongruous in our technical age.
此类传统方法似乎同我们今天的科技时代格格不入。
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