bitter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有苦味的; 辛酸的; 怀恨的; n. 苦啤酒，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, after that I can understand your living like this,' Raskolnikov said with a bitter smile.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then, how can you dare,' said my mother- 'you know I don'tmean how can you dare, Peggotty, but how can you have the heart-to make me so uncomfortable and say such bitter things to me,when you are well aware that I haven't, out of this place, a singlefriend to turn to?'
-- Faithful to her promise, sheeither came to see me, or met me somewhere near, once everyweek, and never empty-handed; but many and bitter were thedisappointments I had, in being refused permission to pay a visitto her at her house.
-- When Miss Mills undertook the office and returned with Dora, 453exhorting us, from the pulpit of her own bitter youth, to mutualconcession, and the avoidance of the desert of Sahara!
-- It had been a bitter day, and a cutting north-east wind had blownfor some time.
-- If I judged harshly of other people's mistakes in marriage, itmay have been because I had bitter reason to judge harshly of myown.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bitter feelings occasioned by this speech, the many bitter feelings, made the utmost exertion necessary on Em-ma's side, to enable her to say on reply, 'Harriet, I will only venture to declare, that Mr. Knight-ley is the last man in the world, who would intentionally give any woman the idea of his feeling for her more than he really does.'
-- While he lived, it must be only an engagement; but she flattered herself, that if divested of the danger of drawing her away, it might be-come an increase of comfort to him. How to do her best by Harriet, was of more difficult decision; how to spare her from any unnecessary pain; how to make her any pos-sible atonement; how to appear least her enemy? On these subjects, her perplexity and distress were very great and her mind had to pass again and again through every bitter reproach and sorrowful regret that had ever surround-ed it. She could only resolve at last, that she would still avoid a meeting with her, and communicate all that need be told by letter; that it would be inexpressibly desirable to have her removed just now for a time from Highbury, and indulging in one scheme more nearly resolve, that 532 Emmait might be practicable to get an invitation for her to Bruns-wick Square. Isabella had been pleased with Harriet; and a few weeks spent in London must give her some amuse-ment. She did not think it in Harriet's nature to escape being benefited by novelty and variety, by the streets, the shops, and the children. At any rate, it would be a proof of attention and kindness in herself, from whom every thing was due; a separation for the present; an averting of the evil day, when they must all be together again.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "True enough," said the man of bitter moods, looking round upon the company with the antithetic laughter that comes from a keener appreciation of the miseries of life than ordinary men are capable of.
-- "It is said but not known for certain that he met with some bitter disappointment when he was a young man and merry.
-- Henery shook his head, and smiled one of the bitter smiles, dragging all the flesh of his forehead into a corrugated heap in the centre.
-- Gabriel at this time of his life had out-grown the instinctive dislike which every Christian boy has for reading the Bible, perusing it now quite frequently, and he inwardly said, "'I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets!'"
-- Heavens you must be heartless quite!Had I known what a fearfully bitter sweet this was to be, how I would have avoided you, and never seen you, and been deaf of you.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poorest sample of humanity, the street arab, will pull the bell handle at every street door in bitter weather, and scramble up to write his name on the unsullied marble of a monument.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor victim, who on the morrow was to pass the awful bound-ary between life and death, felt not, as I did, such deep and bitter agony.
-- Justine assumed an air of cheerfulness, while she with difficulty repressed her bitter tears.
-- He approached; his coun-112 Frankensteintenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.
-- He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
-- Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled inunspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
-- Bitter looks were thrown at him as he came slowly through the press.
-- Her heart sank with bitter disappointment.
-- Against no one was feeling more bitter than against Rhett Butler.
-- In other days, Scarlett would have been bitter about her shabby dresses and patched shoes but now she did notcare, for the one person who mattered was not there to see her.
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