1. That point was emphasized by the fact that Gail's parents, after thirty-five years of marriage, were going through a bitter and painful divorce, which had destroyed Gail and for a time had a negative effect on our budding relationship.
    下列事实强调了这样一点：已经结婚35年的盖尔父母正经历着一场充满怨恨、令人痛苦的婚变，这件事给了盖尔以毁灭性的打击, 并一度给我们正处于萌芽状态的关系带来了负面的影响。

2. A good medicine tastes bitter.
    良药苦口。

3. A. Grow? Oh, you mean how the bitter struggle made revolutionaries of them?
    A． 成长？哦，你是说艰苦卓绝的斗争是如何把他们锻炼成革命者的？

4. "If I start feeling like a victim, that makes me bitter," he said. And why be bitter?
    "如果我开始觉得自己是个受害者，我会很痛苦的。为什么要痛苦呢？"他说。

5. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer.
    有理由害怕自己会死在战场上的年轻人，想到自己被剥夺了生活所能给予的最美好的东西时，感到痛苦，这是可以理解的。

6. She has a bitter tongue.
    她说话刻薄。

7. I'm not being bitter.
    我并不是故意感到忿忿不平。