bitterness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 苦味， 辛酸， 苦难，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not be resigned, and his features expressed the bitterness of his grief.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the presentment of a poor mangled body which had evidently suffered unbearable anguish even be-fore its crucifixion, full of wounds and bruises, marks of the violence of soldiers and people, and of the bitterness of the moment when He had fallen with the cross all this com-bined with the anguish of the actual crucifixion.
-- 'But believe me, believe me, my simple-hearted friends, that in this highly moral verse, in this academical blessing to the world in general in the French language, is hidden the intensest gall and bitterness; but so well concealed is the venom, that I dare say the poet actually persuaded himself that his words were full of the tears of pardon and peace, instead of the bitterness of disappointment and malice, and so died in the delusion.
-- Perhaps she could not resist the satisfac- tion of pouring one last drop of bitterness into her brother Gania's cup, in spite of her love for him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Deiphobus aimed a spear at him as he was retreating slowly from the field, for his bitterness against him was as fierce as ever, but again he missed him, and hit Ascalaphus, the son of Mars; the spear went through his shoulder, and he clutched the earth in the palms of his hands as he fell sprawling in the dust.
-- Therefore I am suppliant at your knees if haply you may be pleased to provide my son, whose end is near at hand, with helmet and shield, with goodly greaves fitted with ancle-clasps, and with a breastplate, for he lost his own when his true comrade fell at the hands of the Trojans, and he now lies stretched on earth in the bitterness of his soul.'
-- On this he sent the other princes away, save only the two sons of Atreus and Ulysses, Nestor, Idomeneus, and the knight Phoenix, who stayed behind and tried to com-fort him in the bitterness of his sorrow: but he would not be comforted till he should have flung himself into the jaws of battle, and he fetched sigh on sigh, thinking ever of Patroclus.
-- Many a son of mine has he slain in the flower of his youth, and yet, grieve for these as I may, I do so for one Hector more than for them all, and the bitterness of my sorrow will bring me down to the house of Hades.
-- The dead hero had had house-dogs; two of them did Achil-les slay and threw upon the pyre; he also put twelve brave sons of noble Trojans to the sword and laid them with the rest, for he was full of bitterness and fury.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in spite of the comical red imps, sparkling elves, and the gorgeous princes and princesses, Jo's pleasure had a drop of bitterness in it.
-- For in that sad yet hap-py hour, she had learned not only the bitterness of remorse and despair, but the sweetness of self-denial and self-con-trol, and led by her mother's hand, she had drawn nearer to the Friend who always welcomes every child with a love stronger than that of any father, tenderer than that of any mother.
-- Never mind what happened just after that, for the full hearts overflowed, washing away the bitterness of the past and leaving only the sweetness of the present.
-- CHAPTER FORTYWhen the first bitterness was over, the family accepted the inevitable, and tried to bear it cheerfully, helping one another by the increased affection which comes to bind households tenderly together in times of trouble.
-- said Jo, for the bitterness of disap-pointment was in that short reply of his.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Say but that, dear Rose; say but that; and soften the bitterness of this hard disappointment!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration, the shock-ing rudeness of Mr. Darcy.
-- would they often exclaiming the bitterness of woe.
-- 'When I wrote that letter,' replied Darcy, 'I believed my-self perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During these first hur-ries I was stupid, lying still in my cabin, which was in the steerage, and cannot describe my temper: I could ill resume the first penitence which I had so apparently trampled upon and hardened myself against: I thought the bitterness of death had been past, and that this would be nothing like the first; but when the master himself came by me, as I said just now, and said we should be all lost, I was dreadfully frighted.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She began to feel the bitterness of the situation.
-- No strain of bitterness was in it for her, whatever he knew.
-- He had taken away some of the bitterness of the contrast between this life and her life, and all by a certain calm indifference which concerned only him.
-- The real bitterness of this thing was added when Mrs. Vance did call.
-- Viewing the world from his rocking-chair, its bitterness did not seem to approach so rapidly.
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