a shirt of haircloth, formerly worn by penitents and ascetics
(忏悔者或苦行者穿的)粗毛布衬衣。
austere and self-sacrificing
苦行的,虔诚奉献的。
n. 粗毛布衬衣
adj. 苦行的;虔诚奉献的
No one is asking you to put on a hair shirt and give up all your luxuries.
没有人要让你进行自我惩罚,非要你放弃所有的奢侈品。
KENNETH BAKER: Keith wore a hair shirt, he beat his breast, and said we were to blame;
基思穿着一件刚毛衬衣,拍着自己的胸膛说我们应承担责任;
Given this history, why would policy makers want to put on another fiscal hair shirt today?
既然有了这前车之鉴,今天的政策制定者为何想受这二茬罪呢?
When my wife finds out about where I was last night I'll have to wear a hair shirt for a week.
如果我妻子发现了我昨晚在何处,我将得做一个星期的忏悔。
But it's in that very agony that the release sometimes comes, sometimes that agony is our hair shirt.
但是在这种痛苦之中我们有时能得到释怀,有时这种痛苦就是惩罚工具。
a shirt of haircloth, formerly worn by penitents and ascetics
(忏悔者或苦行者穿的)粗毛布衬衣。
austere and self-sacrificing
苦行的,虔诚奉献的。