bring something home (to someone) idiom
（让某人）更清楚地理解（尤指不愉快的事）
to make someone understand something much more clearly than they did before, especially something unpleasant
When I saw for myself the damage that had been caused, that really brought home to me the scale of the disaster. 当亲眼看到造成的损失时，我才真正明白灾难的规模有多大。