bitter end

/bit-er -end for 1; bit-er -end for 2/US // ˈbɪt ər ˈɛnd for 1; ˈbɪt ər ˌɛnd for 2 //

苦涩的结局,苦难的结局,苦涩的结束,苦尽甘来

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the conclusion of a difficult or unpleasant situation; the last or furthest extremity: Despite the unpleasant scenes in the movie, she insisted on staying until the bitter end.
- : Nautical. the inboard end of an anchor chain or cable, secured in the chain locker of a vessel.the end of any chain or cable.

noununpleasant termination

Synonyms

Even still, it seemed briefly that Carlsen had earned the sort of slight advantage that he is famous for chasing to the bitter end.
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
Weeks retained an unparalleled legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr.
In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.
In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things.
Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?