brace yourself

基本解释

Brace yourself for a new challenge!
振作起来，迎击新的挑战！
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.
如果你想带上几张卡可以出发去国外了，在国外再买些不实用的纪念品：你这是在为你的信用卡账单累积额外费用呢。
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.
方法可能五花八门，不过若你想告知的一些关键内容不知怎么成了公众常识，你就该做好接受坏消息的准备。

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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