chastening

基本解釋

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
你們所忍受的，是神管教你們，待你們如同待兒子。焉有兒子不被父親管教的呢。
It has been chastening for Ms Rousseff and her party to have been checked in their triumphal progress towards an inherited presidency.
對于羅塞夫和她的政黨來說，入住總統(tǒng)府、向繼承的總統(tǒng)職位凱旋前進已經(jīng)變成一個可以引以為戒的過程。
Why else did Abu Dhabi put Dubai through “months of pain and humiliation”, if it did not see some long-term gain from chastening its neighbour and strengthening the UAE federation, Mr Davidson asks.
如果它并非為懲戒迪拜而得到長期利益以及鞏固阿拉伯聯(lián)合酋長國這一聯(lián)盟，為什么阿布扎比額外地贈與了迪拜“數(shù)月的痛楚和羞辱”？戴維森發(fā)出了上述疑問。

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But for Mr Brown, a stumbling economy will be an especially chastening experience.
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A chastening experience makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.