英语释义

• causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold;

  "bitter cold"

  "a biting wind"

• very difficult to accept or bear;

  "the bitter truth"

  "a bitter sorrow"

• marked by strong resentment or cynicism;

  "an acrimonious dispute"

  "bitter about the divorce"

• one of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine

• the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

• proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity;

  "a bitter struggle"

  "bitter enemies"

• make bitter

• the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

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

• harsh or corrosive in tone;

  "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"

  "a barrage of acid comments"

  "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"

  "bitter words"

  "blistering criticism"

  "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"

  "a sulfurous denunciation"

• extremely and sharply;

  "it was bitterly cold"

  "bitter cold"

• expressive of severe grief or regret;

  "shed bitter tears"

片语

bitter principle[植] 苦味素

bitter end最后；结局

bitter melon苦瓜

bitter gourd[园艺] 苦瓜，苦味葫芦

bitter salt泻盐，硫酸镁

bitter marmalade苦味柑皮果子酱

bitter aloes a purgative made from the leaves of aloe

同义词： aloes

bitter taste味苦，苦味

bitter almond苦杏仁

Bitter Lemon甘柠汽水；苦柠檬水

bitter cold严寒

Bitter Chocolate可可浆

bitter pill困恼；苦涩的药丸

bitter orange酸橙，臭橙；苦酸橙

bitter lakeBitter Lake is a lake in the Trent River and Lake Ontario drainage basins located in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada, about northwest of the community of Haliburto

bitter tea苦茶

英汉例句

• but for america they add a special twist of bitter lemon to their analyses.

  但是，对美国来说，他们为自己的纲领添加了特殊的柠檬苦味。

• dale farm has become a symbol of an increasingly bitter dispute about the rights of gypsies and travellers, around a fifth of whom have nowhere legal to live.

  这些吉卜赛人和”旅行者”中，五分之一没有合法住所，关于他们权利的争论日益激烈，戴尔农场已经成为这场争论的一个标志。

• before consumption, bitter almonds must be processed to remove the poison.

  在消费前，苦杏仁都要经过处理去掉这种毒素。

• all her former pity had withered up through bitter experience.

  经过一段痛苦的经历，她过去的同情心消磨殆尽。

• the spaniards found this 「food from the gods」 bitter (high in potassium), and mixed it with cane sugar as a sweetener.

  西班牙人发现这种「来自上帝的食品」比较苦（含钾量较高），就加入蔗糖作为甜味剂。

• if he feels bitter today, no one could blame him.

  如果他现在感觉苦涩，也不会有人因此而责备他。

• 「i was so bitter and angry all i could think about was revenge, 」 he remembers.

  他回忆说，「我很痛苦，很愤怒，我能想到的就是复仇」。

• if patients are disinclined to take a tablet they consider bitter or sour or because they simply do not like the color, then a change of aesthetics might be needed.

  如果病人不愿服用他们认为苦或酸的药片，或者他们拒绝服药的原因只是不喜欢药片的颜色，那么就非常有必要对药物进行「美学上的修饰」—换个颜色。

• all i can say is that the hatred thatcher invokes is bitter and visceral for those of us who lived through it.

  我所能说的就是，对我们这些经历过那个时代的人来讲，撒切尔引起的愤恨是痛苦的，也是发自内心的。

• she would often romance about her bitter experiences.

  她总是夸大其词地讲她的痛苦经历。

• all i could do was to keep searching for common ground, keep trying to temper the bitter partisanship in washington, and keep doing my best as president.

  所有我能做的就是继续寻求共同点，继续尽力去缓和华盛顿激烈的党派之争，作为总统，继续尽我最大的努力工作。

• then he took some bitter pills.

  接着他吃了些很苦的药。

• she quavered out her bitter experience.

  她以颤抖的声音讲述她悲惨的遭遇。

• over the past six years the house republicans have repeatedly snuffled up the sugar that had been meant to make the bitter pill of entitlement reform go down, without swallowing the hard stuff.

  在过去的六年中，众议院中的共和党人似乎一直在想要通过加点糖来咽下权利改革这颗苦药丸，但事实上，好处得到了之后，改革依然没有实现。

• husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.

  你们作丈夫的，要爱你们的妻子，不可苦待他们。

• good medicine is bitter in the mouth.

  良药苦口。

• but their laughter will turn to bitter envy when our child gets his diploma first, and we get up off these folding chairs and head for a restaurant!

  但等我们的孩子第一个拿到毕业证书后，我们从这些折椅上站起来，向饭馆进发时，他们的笑声就会变为痛苦的嫉妒！

• one of these was laced with a bitter additive that could be detected only on contact.

  其中一种含有一些只有接触才能发现的苦味的添加剂。

相似词

distasteful令人不快的；不合口味的；表示厌恶的

unpleasant讨厌的；使人不愉快的

acidulous带酸味的；尖刻的；带讽刺意味的

beer啤酒

pungent辛辣的；刺激性的；刺鼻的；苦痛的；尖刻的

unpleasant讨厌的；使人不愉快的

angry生气的；愤怒的；狂暴的；（伤口等）发炎的

sour发酵；变酸；厌烦

acid酸的；讽刺的；刻薄的

raw生的；未加工的；阴冷的；刺痛的；擦掉皮的；无经验的；（在艺术等方面）不成熟的

hostile敌对

acrid（气味）辛辣的，苦的；刻薄的

sarcastic挖苦的；尖刻的，辛辣的

caustic[助剂] 腐蚀剂；苛性钠；焦散曲线

distasteful令人不快的；不合口味的；表示厌恶的

cynical愤世嫉俗的；冷嘲的

frosty结霜的，严寒的；冷淡的；灰白的

cutting剪报；插枝，插条；狭窄通道，路堑；切割，切断；割下的东西

sharpad 急剧地；锐利地；突然地

harsh(Harsh) 哈什（人名）

painful痛苦的；疼痛的；令人不快的

相反词

sweet(Sweet)人名；(英)斯威特