a bitter pill to swallow

基本解释

• 吞下苦果；（必須吞下去的）苦葯丸，不能不做的苦事，不得不忍受的屈辱

英汉例句

雙語例句

• It is a bitter pill to swallow but the truth is fear drives your life.
  一個好一點的解釋是你衹是在忍受，但事實是你讓恐懼掌控了你的生活。
• Kosovo's Albanians will be happy with this—but they will have a bitter pill to swallow too.
  科索沃阿族人將對此感到滿意——但他們也會吞下苦葯。
• A tough loss, and a bitter pill to swallow, but with distance the US players can certainly be proud of their efforts.
  這是一場艱難的失敗，一顆難以吞咽的苦果。 但長遠地看，美國球員可以儅之無愧地爲自己的努力而驕傲。

權威例句

• Otherwise, they will have a bitter pill to swallow when change is forced upon them.
  FORBES: One Way To Fix Health Care's Obesity Problem
• For parliament member Mustafa Alush(ph), nominating another general was a bitter pill to swallow.
  NPR: Lebanese Rivals Agree on Compromise Candidate
• Kosovo's Albanians will be happy with this—but they will have a bitter pill to swallow too.
  ECONOMIST: Serbia and Kosovo

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