He felt that punishing Davis would only create more bitterness and make reconstruction the rebuilding of the South more difficult.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.

现在列维仍然在世，年事已高，晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。

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The laws also increased bitterness between the North and South that lasted many years.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He said the North could look on in safety while the actions of some of its people were producing flames of bitterness throughout the southern states.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

This conflict between Johnson and the Congress caused much bitterness.

VOA: special.2010.01.28