| 单词 | bitter |
| 释义 | bitter I. bit·ter 1. a. < the medicine left a bitter taste in her mouth > — compare salt, sour, sweet b. < bitter truths > < a bitter sense of shame > 2. a. < a bitter death > < there was a bitter moment when they parted for the last time > b. < a bitter partisan > < the bitter struggle for economic freedom > often < bitter enemies > c. obsolete d. (1) of modes of expression < bitter complaints > (2) of a person or attitude < bitter contempt > < a bitter answer > e. of weather or its manifestations < a bitter wind whistled about our ears > 3. obsolete 4. < bitter tears shed too late > Synonyms: < in its green state, it is exceedingly acrid, but boiled or baked, had the sweetness of the sugarcane — Herman Melville > < there was an acrid musty smell; the raw air was close with breathing — Rose Macaulay > bitter, a more general and often less extreme word, indicates a marked pungent taste, usually unpleasant, and an absence of sweetness or mildness < bitter as aloes, it parched my tongue — Elinor Wylie > < McCoy had made some beer, once, with ti roots … It was bitter stuff and fair gagged ye to get it down — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > Sometimes, as with bitter chocolate, bitter winter cress and tonics, and flavors called bitters, the unpleasant suggestion is lacking. Both words refer to acid, misanthropic temperaments. acrid suggest malevolent, caustic sarcasm < the thin, angular woman, with her haughty eye and her acrid mouth — Lytton Strachey > bitter may add to this the suggestion of cynicism < the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes — George Eliot > Synonyms: < a bitter winter > < a bitter period of frustration > < no act of Caesar's showed more sagacity than the introduction of Gallic nobles into the Senate; none was more bitter to the Scipios and Metelli, who were compelled to share their august privileges with these despised barbarians — J.A.Froude > < one had a bitter sense of waste when one read how tuberculosis had taken him at last up in Switzerland — Rebecca West > In descriptions of persons and their moods, utterances, and activities, bitter indicates deep, virulent, implacable resentment and hate < an ugly story of low passion, delusion, and waking from delusion, which needs not to be dragged from the privacy of Godfrey's bitter memory — George Eliot > sore applies to what occasions severe trial, tribulation, or painful affliction < Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night — Herman Melville > < an exceptionally long history of struggle and suffering has left many sore and sensitive spots in the body of Israel — M.R.Cohen > Applied to persons sore may indicate either painful sensitivity or smarting resentment < the worst of suffering such as hers was that it left one sore to the gentlest touch — Edith Wharton > < many of the delegates were sore and angry about places in the Constitution that they didn't like and had worked hard to cut out — Dorothy C. Fisher > grievous, rather archaic in effect, applies to the painfully onerous or sorely lamentable < though his hurts were many and grievous, and his lifeblood ebbing fast — William Morris > < Europe had suffered grievous losses of men and materials — Vera M. Dean > II. bitter 1. 2. dialect England < this drug is wanted bitter bad, sir — R.L.Stevenson > III. bitter 1. a. < take the bitter with the sweet > b. < the medicine has a bitter all its own > 2. a. bitters plural b. Britain IV. bitter < bittered ale > : embitter V. bitt·er |
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