Bitter

(noun.) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth.

(noun.) English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft).

(verb.) make bitter.

(adj.) proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; 'a bitter struggle'; 'bitter enemies' .

(adj.) expressive of severe grief or regret; 'shed bitter tears' .

(adj.) causing a sharp and acrid taste experience;'quinine is bitter' .

(adj.) very difficult to accept or bear; 'the bitter truth'; 'a bitter sorrow' .

整理:康拉德

• He now smiled: and not a bitter or a sad smile, but one well pleased and deeply gratified. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe; yet she is but a 'chitty-faced creature,' as my mother would say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The bitter waters of life surged high about him, their sterile taste was on his lips. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Send me a large cloak: a good warm one: for it is bitter cold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Who shall analyse those tears and say whether they were sweet or bitter? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The hard, bitter feeling was getting pretty bad, when the maid brought in a box of flowers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• You are very kind not to reproach me, she said: I weep, and a bitter pang of intolerable sorrow tears my heart. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Your words are bitter, Rebecca, said Bois-Guilbert, pacing the apartment with impatience, but I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Yes, she repeated, in tones of the bitterest, steadiest contempt. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Mr. Osborne dropped it with the bitterest, deadliest pang of balked affection and revenge. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Thus liberty, getting out of all order and reason, passes into the harshest and bitterest form of slavery. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It was the bitterest disappointment we had yet experienced. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• My honour is as untouched as that of the bitterest enemy who ever maligned me. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Sarcasms of which the severity amazed and puzzled me, harassed my ears; then flowed out the bitterest inuendoes against the pride of intellect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I never,' towelling at himself as if he were his bitterest enemy, 'saw such a girl as you are. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Little Mowcher would have as much need to live, if she was the bitterest and dullest of pigmies; but she couldn't do it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Archer, changing colour, stood up also: it was the bitterest rebuke she could have given him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

整理:谢尔登