chastening

基本解释

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
你们所忍受的，是神管教你们，待你们如同待儿子。焉有儿子不被父亲管教的呢。
It has been chastening for Ms Rousseff and her party to have been checked in their triumphal progress towards an inherited presidency.
对于罗塞夫和她的政党来说，入住总统府、向继承的总统职位凯旋前进已经变成一个可以引以为戒的过程。
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.
如果它并非为惩戒迪拜而得到长期利益以及巩固阿拉伯联合酋长国这一联盟，为什么阿布扎比额外地赠与了迪拜“数月的痛楚和羞辱”？戴维森发出了上述疑问。

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With Mr Kirchner's death, the political era engendered by the chastening collapse of 2001 is drawing to a close.
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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.