the humbling

常见例句

THE US risks losing its edge in human space exploration and faces the humbling prospect of relying on outsiders to put its astronauts into space.
美国正处在失去人类空间探索优势的危险边缘，与此同时，美国也将不得不面对将依靠外国将宇航员送进太空的尴尬。
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You and your children will be witnesses to the humbling of these alien oppressors. Their humbling will be such that they will be completely disappear.
你和你的子嗣们将目击这些外来压迫者的挫败，他们的挫败将达到使他们完全消失的地步。
From my tumultuous yet inspiring childhood to the humbling scenes of a hospital emergency room, each experience has prepared me for a career in medicine.
从动荡不安却让人激动奋发的童年，到充斥严肃场景的医院急诊室，每种经历都让我做好了投身医学事业的准备。

Some are exhilarating; some are humbling." Many of the new Republican members of the House are young Tea Party activists.
Typically, that is granted and they can then do it, but they are of course humbling themselves by making the request and coming down under the orders of the winners and taking their dead away and being buried.
一般来说胜方都是会同意的,当然战败方肯定要低三下四,卑躬屈膝,然后按照胜方的指示,拿回死者的尸体然后埋葬
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In areas like Internet search, social networking and smartphone software, Microsoft holds the humbling position of an also-ran.
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The humbling experience was the subject of a Forbes story in October.
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One key measure of the humbling of British banks is that their profit has slumped 58% from its peak four years ago.
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