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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A bitter sleet came rattling against us here on the east wind, and Joe took me on his back.
-- As I cried, I kicked the wall, and took a hard twist at my hair; so bitter were my feelings, and so sharp was the smart without a name, that needed counteraction.
-- "I wish," said the other, with a bitter curse upon the cold, "that I had 'em here."
-- I saw in this, wretched though it made me, and bitter the sense of dependence and even of degradation that it awakened,--I saw in this that Estella was set to wreak Miss Havisham's revenge on men, and that she was not to be given to me until she had gratified it for a term.
-- I answered, as my bitter tears fell fast on her hand, do what I would to restrain them; "even if I remained in England and could hold my head up with the rest, how could I see you Drummle's wife?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gretel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel: 'Now all 109is over with us.'
-- Then they 293waited till he was fast asleep, and poured the Water of Life out of the cup, and took it for themselves, giving him bitter sea-water instead.
-- Scarcely, however, had he tasted the bitter sea-water when he became worse even than he was before; and then both the elder sons came in, and blamed the youngest for what they had done; and said that he wanted to poison their father, but that they had found the Water of Life, and had brought it with them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She disgraced herseln everyways, bitter and bad.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT CHAPTER 21 UNDER THE OCEAN CHAPTER 22 SUNDAY BELOW GROUND CHAPTER 23 ALONE CHAPTER 24 LOST!
-- A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT During a long, long, weary hour, there crossed my wildly delirious brain all sorts of reasons as to what could have aroused our quiet and faithful guide.
-- "Boiling," I cried, in bitter disappointment.
-- My dear boy, I had begun to give over all hope--and you can never know what bitter tears of sorrow and regret I have shed.
-- This system or theory, call it what you will, had, it is true, a bitter adversary in M. Elie de Beaumont.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had cost him that bitter privacy of a man who at last wants only to be alone.
-- After sitting in a stupor of bitter thoughts until midnight, he got suddenly from his chair and reached for his coat and gun.
-- She wept a few bitter tears, and Connie wept more.
-- It was bitter to her to go on to Wragby.
-- 'It seems to me a wrong and bitter thing to do, to bring a child into this world.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You'll have bitter words together to-morrow, Arthur; you and your mother,' said Jeremiah.
-- In my sinfulness I merit bitter disappointment, and I accept it.'
-- Unfortunates with wrongs, or with projects for the general welfare (and they had better have had wrongs at first, than have taken that bitter English recipe for certainly getting them), who in slow lapse of time and agony had passed safely through other public departments; who, according to rule, had been bullied in this, over-reached by that, and evaded by the other; got referred at last to the Circumlocution Office, and never reappeared in the light of day.
-- She was much more accessible, much more free and engaging, much less exacting; insomuch that she now entertained a host of followers and admirers, to the bitter indignation of ladies with daughters to marry, who were to be regarded as Having revolted from Society on the Miss Dorrit grievance, and erected a rebellious standard.
-- Though he expressed the greatest pity for him, he was almost bitter upon him.
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