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Closely associated with cultures, modesty reveals different cultural traits and abides by different politeness norms.

在跨文化交流中,谦逊被看作为礼貌的表现。

The modesty maxim is one of the six maxims of Politeness Principle put forward by Leech, a famous linguist, which has been used in Chinese culture broadly, and modesty incarnates the moral and value tropism of the traditional Chinese society.

　谦逊准则是著名语言学家Leech提出的"礼貌原则"的六条准则之一,这条准则在中国文化中得到很好的运用,体现了中国传统社会的道德和价值取向,而英语中的谦逊用语远比汉语中的少,实际应用的更少。