They saw Grant as a strong and silent soldier a great leader who had won a long and bitter war.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Bitter constraint and sad occasion are forcing him to write, even though, of course, he's not yet ready.

亲友的惨遇，痛苦的重压迫使他下笔，尽管如此，他还是没准备好。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

- If you eat these raw, which they do in many places around the world, if you eat a bitter one, you could, in fact, get enough cyanide to kill you.

如果你生吃它们的话，它们在世界上的很多地方都存在，如果你吃了一个苦的根，可能，实际上，它所含的氰化物的量足以令你死亡。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The protests were especially bitter on the pacific coast where thousands of Chinese immigrants were settling in California.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Bitter pride, chipper laughter Then silence, each waiting for the other to contribute something.

苦涩的高傲，爽朗的笑声,沉寂却随之而来,每个人都在等其他人说点什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It was a bitter defeat. But it made the North recognize the need for a real army one trained and equipped for war.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Obviously poverty and racism and oppression can also corrupt one's spirit and turn the person into someone who is bitter and angry, filled with rage.

当然，贫穷，歧视，压迫,会摧垮一个人的精神，让人变得,愤世嫉俗，满腔怒火。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Harrison caught a cold, probably from standing so long outside in the bitter weather of inaugural day.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Now, the situation of the Israelites in Egypt, the text says, remains bitter. Exodus 2:23-24: ; "The Israelites were groaning under the bondage, and cried out; And their cry for help from the bondage rose up to God.

以色列人在埃及的境况，文中说，仍然很艰苦，《出埃及记》第2章23到24节：,“以色列人因作苦工，就叹息哀求;,他们的哀声达于神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And this,said the southern declaration, would lead to bitter hostility and war between North and South.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Why does your body experience one food as highly pleasant, highly reinforcing, highly comforting, highly soothing even, and experience those other foods as bitter and unpleasant?

为何身体能从一种食物中获得高度愉悦感,感到极度满足,舒适,甚至感到安抚,但却觉得其他食物难以下咽呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The public saw the elections as a sign of hope that reasonable people might find a way to settle the bitter dispute over slavery.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

There's different types of the root that you can get called the bitter and the sweet.

这些根有不同的类型,被称为苦的和甜的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Neither name was friendly. Southern whites had a reason to be bitter.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The bitter, of course, are the ones that are very high in cyanide.

苦的根，当然，是富含氰化物的那种。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He feared it would re-open the bitter, national debate about slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... Milton is lamenting, once again, that Milton has been compelled to begin writing.

因为亲友的惨遇，痛苦的重压，迫使我前来扰乱你正茂的年华：,利西达斯死了，死于峥嵘岁月。,弥尔顿再一次哀叹道，他是不得以写这首诗的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Andrew Johnson soon found himself in a bitter struggle with Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

In the far West, one could forget this bitter dispute.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Bitter as this belief was, he accepted it.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

After being away from the Senate for almost eight years, Clay was surprised to find how bitter the two sections of the United States -- north and south -- had grown toward each other.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

It was bitter.It was caustic.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

And,in May 2007 a new power-sharing government took over administration of Northern Ireland with bitter foes agreeing to sit together.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

He called on both Democrats and Republicans to overcome their bitter partisan divisions and work together to pass legislation to solve problems.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Hours earlier,the 59-year-old self-made millionaire had backed away from earlier statements,and agreed to accept his bitter rival, as president of a transitional government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

President Sarkozy said the fact that France and Germany, once such bitter enemies, were co-hosting this anniversary summit is testimony to what NATO has achieved.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

Al Arabiya TV reports that the government is welcoming the Houthi rebel leader's offer to negotiate to put an end to the bitter fighting which has devastated parts of Saada province.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

Another bitter point of contention is the former president's decision to have young Ukrainians learn about the so-called Holodomor, a Kremlin-inspired famine more than 75 years ago that was aimed at collectivizing Soviet agriculture.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17