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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We stood with bitter hearts on either side of the mangled body, overwhelmed by this sudden and irrevocable disas-ter which had brought all our long and weary labours to so piteous an end.
-- With a bitter curse I shook my fist at it as I gazed.
-- Her fi-delity turned in an instant to bitter hatred and he saw that she would betray him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nina Alexandrovna observed his cautiousness and added, with a bitter smile: 'You are still suspicious, I see, and do not believe me; but you may be quite at your ease.
-- Is it a bitter dose?
-- he cried in bitter tones, as he sat with his new friends in prison, and recounted to them his favourite stories of the siege of Kars, and the resuscitated soldier.
-- The only person who deplored his fate was poor Nina Alexandrovna, who wept bitter tears over him, to the great surprise of her household, and, though always in feeble health, made a point of going to see him as often as possible.
-- Well, because of that moment of bitter suffering, perhaps the Saviour will pardon her other faults, for one cannot imagine a greater agony.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He may offer me ten or even twenty times what he has now done, nay not though it be all that he has in the world, both now or ever shall have; he may promise me the wealth of Orcho-menus or of Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world, for it has a hundred gates through each of which two hundred men may drive at once with their chari-ots and horses; he may offer me gifts as the sands of the sea or the dust of the plain in multitude, but even so he shall not move me till I have been revenged in full for the bitter wrong he has done me.
-- I took counsel to kill him, but some god stayed my rashness and bade me think on men's evil tongues and how I should be branded as the murderer of my father; nevertheless I could not bear to stay in my father's house with him so bitter a against me.
-- He laid him at full length and cut out the sharp arrow from his thigh; he washed the black blood from the wound with warm water; he then crushed a bitter herb, rubbing it between his hands, and spread it upon the wound; this was a virtuous herb which killed all pain; so the wound presently dried and the blood left off flowing.
-- Thus did she too speak through her tears with bitter moan, and then Helen for a third time took up the strain of lamentation.
-- When they were got together, they first quenched the fire with wine wherev-er it was burning, and then his brothers and comrades with many a bitter tear gathered his white bones, wrapped them in soft robes of purple, and laid them in a golden urn, which they placed in a grave and covered over with large stones set close together.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then there were wicked, bitter howls from the young wolves: 'Akela!Akela!Let the Lone Wolf show his strength.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It can't be denied that your traditions tell you true in both these matters,' said the white man; 'for I have been there, and have seen them, though why water, which is so sweet in the shade, should become bitter in the sun, is an al-teration for which I have never been able to account.'
-- Why should there be bitter words between us?
-- muttered the scout, whirling the despised little implement over the falls with bitter dis-dain.
-- Hawkeye exclaimed, dropping the useless piece in bitter disappointment; 'the miscreant has struck the rapid; and had we powder, it could hardly send the lead swifter than he now goes!'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How to go about getting anything was a bitter thought.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To the bitter death!'
-- Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Drink it and I'll give you a lump of sugar to take the bitter taste from your mouth."
-- "I want the sugar first, then I'll drink the bitter water."
-- He fell to the ground and, covering the cold marble with kisses, burst into bitter tears.
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