单词 | a bitter pill (to swallow) |
释义 | a bitter pill (to swallow)a bitter pill (to swallow) UNPLEASANTsomething very unpleasant that you must accept 必须吞下去的苦药丸,不得不接受的现实 The knowledge that his friends no longer trusted him was a bitter pill to swallow. 得知朋友不再信任他,他很难接受。 Examples from the Corpus a bitter pill (to swallow)• It was a bitter pill for the 117 men listed to swallow with their Thanksgiving turkey yesterday.• Losing the business was a bitter pill to swallow.• It was a bit of a blow, a bitter pill to swallow. → a bitter pill (to swallow) at bitter1(2) |
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