brace yourself

基本解釋

Brace yourself for a new challenge!
振作起來，迎擊新的挑戰(zhàn)！
If you plan to pack a couple of credit cards and head overseas, brace yourself for an unpleasant travel memento: Extra charges on your credit card bill.
如果你想帶上幾張卡可以出發(fā)去國外了，在國外再買些不實用的紀念品：你這是在為你的信用卡賬單累積額外費用呢。
The methods may differ, but if you have something critical to say and it somehow becomes public knowledge, you should brace yourself for unpleasant consequences.
方法可能五花八門，不過若你想告知的一些關(guān)鍵內(nèi)容不知怎么成了公眾常識，你就該做好接受壞消息的準備。

If you can't come up with the money in time, brace yourself for a financial nightmare.
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Yet really, dear progressive reader (if any), brace yourself: Civil servants are not superheroes.
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The poem is (brace yourself) a relic of the Dark Ages--as in chain mail, not e-mail.
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