a chastening [noun]
chastening 作定语，常修饰 experience、defeat、lesson 等表示经历或教训的名词。
Losing the match was a chastening experience for the young team.
输掉比赛对这支年轻球队来说是一次令人受挫的经历。
使人谦卑的；令人羞愧的
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使人谦卑的；令人羞愧的
humbling; causing a feeling of shame or embarrassment
Losing the match was a chastening reminder that we still had a lot to learn.
输掉比赛是一个令人羞愧的提醒，说明我们还有很多东西要学。
用法提示：chastening 作形容词修饰 reminder，表示“使人谦卑的、令人羞愧的”。
The teacher's chastening comments made him realize how careless his work had been.
老师那些令人羞愧的评论让他意识到自己的作业有多粗心。
用法提示：chastening 作形容词修饰 comments，强调让人感到羞愧或受挫。
It was a chastening experience to see how little I knew about the subject.
看到自己对这门学科了解得那么少，真是一次令人汗颜的经历。
用法提示：chastening 作形容词修饰 experience，表达“令人谦卑的、让人失去信心的”。
chastening 作定语，常修饰 experience、defeat、lesson 等表示经历或教训的名词。
Losing the match was a chastening experience for the young team.
输掉比赛对这支年轻球队来说是一次令人受挫的经历。
作表语时，主语通常是经历、结果、失败等抽象事物，而非人。
The results were chastening for everyone involved.
结果让所有参与者都感到羞愧。
find 后接宾语，再接 chastening 作宾语补足语，表示认为某事令人受挫或羞愧。
She found the criticism chastening but useful.
她觉得这些批评让她难堪，但很有用。
grammar · medium
易错句子I felt really chastening after I failed the driving test.
正确表达I felt really chastened after I failed the driving test.
chastening 是 -ing 形容词，表示“令人羞愧的、令人受挫的”，用来描述引起这种感受的事物；主语是人、表示人自身的感受时，要用 -ed 形式的 chastened，意思是“感到羞愧、受到教训”。所以这里应把 chastening 改为 chastened。
grammar · medium
易错句子Losing to a weaker team was chastening experience for us.
正确表达Losing to a weaker team was a chastening experience for us.
这里的 experience 是可数名词，意思是“一次经历”；它被形容词 chastening 修饰，并且是泛指，前面必须加不定冠词 a。汉语没有冠词，学习者容易漏掉，所以要写成 a chastening experience。
chastising 通常指用言语严厉斥责或施加体罚，主语多是人；chastening 侧重（失败、挫折等经历）使人羞愧、收敛，或起惩戒作用。要表达“某人开口责骂”时，通常用 chastising。
humbling 多指经历使人意识到自身渺小、心生敬意，未必含过错或受罚意味；chastening 更强调因失败、受挫或受管教而感到羞愧并有所收敛，带“教训”色彩。
hastening 与速度、催促有关，拼写只比 chastening 少首字母 c；表示“惩戒性的、使人受教的”时只能用 chastening，不能用 hastening。
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