There was a telephone there and so I called up my mother to pick me up. Soon, she came and took me home. This was really a humbling experience.

那儿有一个电话亭，所以我打电话给妈妈要她来接我。很快地，妈妈就来带我回家。这真是一次令人羞愧的经历。

||1: The humbling of department stores began in the 1960s. ||2: First specialised retailers, their shopping-mall neighbours, stole sales, as did discounters. ||3: Then came “category killers”, which laid claim to electronics and toys, for example, followed by online-only retailers, the current menace. ||4: America’s biggest department-store group, Sears Holdings, is one of its sickest. J.C. Penney’s customers defected not to rival stores but to discounters like T.J. Maxx.

||1:百货公司的衰退始于60年代。||2:首先是紧邻百货公司的专营商和折扣商店抢了百货公司的生意。||3:然后是品类杀手，比如只经营电子产品和玩具的专卖店，接着是线上零售商，正是当前的威胁。||4: 美国最大的百货商店集团希尔斯控股集团是最惨的。彭尼的的消费者大都转战折扣店T.J. Maxx去了。

||1: The scope of Georgian history may be a humbling shock for those who thought the country appeared on the map only when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. ||2: But the reader needs to take a deep breath, for the next 200 pages could be mistaken at times for a stray appendix from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. ||3: The tersely told stories involve hundreds of unknown but like-sounding people and places which appear and disappear in quick succession. ||4: The beheadings, castrations, sodomisations, rapes and eye-gougings—a local speciality—that dot the pages are jolting. But a little more in the way of analogies, signposts, interpretation and characterisation would have lightened the mixture.

||1:对于那些认为格鲁吉亚在1991年苏联解体时才出现在地图上的人来说，格鲁吉亚历史的源远流长可能是个令人羞愧的发现。||2:但是读者需要深呼吸一下，因为之后的200页有时候会被人误以为是J.R.R.托尔金所著的《指环王》丢失的附录。||3:一个个用词简练的故事里有着成百上千个不知名却听起来都很像的人物和地点，这些名字快速地出现，又快速地消失。||4:在这部分，不时出现的砍头、阉割、鸡奸、强奸和挖眼情节让人看得触目惊心。如果多点类比、线索、解释和特征描述将会使这部分读起来不那么沉重。

||1: Messrs Shultz and Dam argue that the import surcharge was intended as “an attention-getter and a bargaining chip”. ||2: It allowed John Connally, Nixon’s treasury secretary and a Texan, to stride down the corridors of international finance “with both guns blazing”. ||3: In the face of this bravado America’s trading partners duly backed down. ||4: By December they agreed to let the dollar fall (by a trade-weighted average of 6.5%) and the surcharge was removed. ||5: Nixon was able to present the humbling of the dollar as a political victory. ||6: But were Barack Obama to emulate him, would he really enjoy the same result?

||1:舒尔茨先生和丹先生认为进口的附加税是刻意用来做为”注意唤醒剂和谈判筹码”。||2: 好让尼克松那位德州人的财政部长约翰˙康纳利(John Connally)，走在国际金融的大街上，”手持双枪亮晃”。 ||3:在这样的威吓下，美国的贸易伙伴们全都乖乖就范。||4:十二月不到，他们就同意让美元贬值(幅度约是交易额加权平均数的6.5%)，附加税也跟着取消。||5:尼克松当时将美元的贬值宣传成政治上的胜利。||6:不过如果奥巴马如法泡制，他会真的赢得同样的结果吗?

He added: “You see the damage these things took, and it’s humbling to watch some of the video of these vessels because they’re war graves.”

他还说：“你看到这些战舰遭受的破坏，看到这些战舰的一些视频会非常震撼，因为它们是战争的坟墓。”

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief executive, responded to investor criticisms that the process was slow and disorderly by saying that the huge interest shown by the suitors was humbling .

雅虎的首席执行官马利沙·梅耶对投资者们批评并购进展缓慢而无序作出回应，声称有意收购方展现的巨大兴趣是令人羞恼的。

Yes, it is humbling to admit our weaknesses to others, but lack of humility is the very thing that is keeping you from getting better.

不错，向人承认软弱让我们觉得谦卑屈尊，但欠缺谦虚的态度正是阻碍我们被医治原因。

Nonetheless, for some economists, the lessons of the crisis are likely to be smaller, though no less humbling .

不管怎样，对有些经济学家来说，危机的教训似乎要小一些，虽然仍然是带有羞辱性的涵义。

The firm faced a humbling defeat and a huge new competitor: the government itself.

而澳电信面临的是一个新的巨大的竞争对手：政府。

Instead, we have to accept the humbling truth that “each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. ”

反而，我们应直面卑贱的事实（译注：实情）：“各人被试探，乃是被自己的私欲牵引诱惑的”。

It is an improbable scandal that features Rupert Murdoch’s humbling at the hands of Parliament as one of its dullest chapters.

鲁伯特•默多克（RupertMurdoch，通称老默多克）在议会面前卑躬屈膝显然不大可能是这一丑闻最无聊的一页。

Yet even amid its historic humbling , the U. S. has shown an ability to bring new ideas to global scale rapidly.

然而，即便在历史动荡之中，美国已显示出能够将新概念迅速在全球普及的能力。

It’s humbling to audition for parts, and, said Dr. Bialik, “there’s nothing like being a graduate student to bring you to tears. ”

试镜会让人害羞，Bialik博士还说：“没有什么能像成为一名大研究生那样让你落泪。”

a special force, a humbling power, because it shows the vulnerability of people of hope and good will.

特别有气魄，有让人羞愧的力量，因为它表现了希望和善意的弱点。

The hospital stay was humbling to him.

在住院期间，他感到自我的卑微。

Until quite recently, the talk was about the humbling of America’s laisser faire capitalism.

直到最近，美国自由资本主义蒙受的耻辱还是人们谈论的焦点。

Marking Galileo’s anniversary, the International Year of Astronomy seeks to remind us of the humbling nature of gazing at the heavens.

作为伽利略的周年纪念活动，国际天文年希望提醒我们在仰望星空时，感受到个人的谦卑。