Bitterness

(noun.) a rough and bitter manner.

(noun.) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste.

手打:西摩

• The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But there arose no clamour in his breast, only a bitterness that was visionary in itself. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The heart knoweth its own bitterness, said Miss Ophelia, gravely. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• 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. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Lady Crackenbury read the paragraph in bitterness of spirit and discoursed to her followers about the airs which that woman was giving herself. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The thought of Laura welled up like a spring in the depths of my heart, and filled it with waters of bitterness, never, never known to it before. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will's repulse or the bitterness of his words. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Yet as the laugh died, a kind of wrath smote me, and then bitterness followed: it was the rock struck, and Meribah's waters gushing out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; and that may be the case here. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• His tone was cold and ironical; its bitterness but reflecting the terrible disappointment he had suffered. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• She spoke with a bitterness of tone which satisfied me that the scandal of the Moonstone had been in some way recalled to her mind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They became Protestants as the struggle grew in bitterness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Will's certainty as the carriage grew smaller in the distance, had much more bitterness in it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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