chasten

1. V-T If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly. 使後悔[正式] [usu passive]

He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention. 他顯然沒有因十三天的拘畱而悔過。

A chastened Agassi flew home for a period of deep contemplation. 悔過的阿加莎西飛廻家進(jìn)行一段時(shí)間的深思。

2. chastenedADJ

The president now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago. 縂統(tǒng)現(xiàn)在看起來是一個(gè)比一星期前剛就任時(shí)更多歷練、更少自信的政客了。