"Weighed in the balance and found wanting" nghĩa là gì?

"Weighed (in the balance) and found wanting" = bị cân trên cái cân và thấy thiếu (trích từ Kinh Thánh trong sách Đa-ni-ên 5:27) -> nghĩa là bị kiểm tra và phát hiện ra sai sót, lỗi lầm.

Ví dụ

Because the FNMis is weighed in the balance and found wanting when it comes to signing documents that will benefit the Bahamian people.

In the world of facilities management, current events have caused many of us to not only revisit the way we lead our teams, but also the way we run our operations. In this ever-evolving profession, we as facilities management leaders do not want to be weighed in the balance and found wanting. It’s important that facilities management leaders position ourselves to lead in the most effective way. Our team members depend on us to do so, and the future of our profession depends upon us.

His hubris (xấc xược, ngạo mạn) and perhaps narcissism (tự luyến, tự yêu bản thân) were clear for all to see. As he and his guests carried on with their drunken orgy (cuộc vui điên cuồng), a finger suddenly appeared and wrote on the wall, “mene, mene, tekel, parsin” (or upharsin as some translators have it). Daniel, one of the young and promising men who had been taken into exile in Babylon, and who had proven his loyalty to Yahweh, was called in to interpret the writing on the wall. The interpretation was no comfort to the king. His kingdom would be taken from him. He, the king, had been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Daniel would not hide the truth from the autocratic (chuyên quyền, độc đoán) centre of power in his time.

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