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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He chose his moment carefully, and tried to make his request sound casual; but he could not master the trembling of his voice; and he felt himself that into words that he wished to seem jovial and friendly there crept the bitterness of his jealousy.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dreary weight of anxiety and acrid bitterness settled on her.
-- And the joy of this compensates for all the bitterness of knowledge and the sordidness of our humanity.
-- There was a weary, mocking bitterness in her voice.
-- But there arose no clamour in his breast, only a bitterness that was visionary in itself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, the bitterness of her grief was not in beholding him in this condition, when he was at least content and tranquil, nor in her solitary meditations on his altered state, though these were trials for a young heart.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had slept, and my fire had gone out, and the bitterness of death came over my soul.
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：
-- As for me, who am of the whole blood of the whites, it is befitting that I should die as becomes my color, with no words of scoffing in my mouth, and without bitterness at the heart!'
-- 'Leave me,' she said, with a solemnity that for a moment checked the barbarity of the Indian; 'you mingle bitterness in my prayers; you stand between me and my God!'
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