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heartburning

/hahrt-bur-ning/US // ˈhɑrtˌbɜr nɪŋ //

烧心,心烧,胃灼热,胃灼热感

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.

Examples

  • So passed a year, full of anxiety and heartburning for them, full of the sweetest happiness for me.

  • Much heartburning and much needless trouble often come of "offences" which exist only in imagination.

  • In the following pages is the Courant confession of Burke, about which there was so much difficulty and heartburning.

  • This is why a question apparently of pure science turns out practically so full of inward heartburning and mutual reviling.

  • It reduced his heartburning to melancholy, and he exclaimed, "Why the deuce did I come here!"