bitter pill

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bitter pill 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept: Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.

bitter pill 近义词

n. 名词 noun

something unavoidable and unpleasant

bitter pill 的近义词 6

更多bitter pill例句

  1. Weeks retained an unparalleled legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr.
  2. For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
  3. This is a time for many bitter tears and, one can only hope, a better future.
  4. There was a collective gasp at both the four-letter word and the bitter sentiment it carried.
  5. By halftime a crowd of what appeared to be a few hundred people had amassed in the bitter cold.
  6. As Felipe talked with him, he perceived even more clearly how bitter and unjust his mother had been to Alessandro.
  7. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!
  8. She suddenly sank back upon the pillow and gave up to bitter anguish, when she recalled what had followed.
  9. Gordon gave a bitter laugh and went on, with the same strange, serious air of explaining his plan.
  10. If he had only been himself I should have had nothing more to desire, but he was in one of his bitter, sarcastic moods.