Đắng

add some sugar, because this coffee is too bitter

hãy thêm đường vào, vì cà phê này đắng quá

Cay đắng, chua xót, đau đớn; đau khổ, thảm thiết

bitter disappointment

sự thất vọng cay đắng

bitter tears

những giọt nước mắt đau khổ

Chua cay, gay gắt; ác liệt, quyết liệt

bitter sarcasm

lời chế nhạo chua cay

bitter remark

lời phê bình gay gắt

bitter fighting

sự đánh nhau ác liệt

Rét buốt (thời tiết, gió...)

bitter wind

gió rét buốt

as bitter as gall

đắng như mật, đắng như bồ bòn

a bitter pill to swallow

viên thuốc đắng phải uống

Điều đắng cay (điều tủi nhục) phải chịu đựng

to the bitter end

cho đến cùng

Vị đắng

Nỗi đắng cay

the bitters of life

những nỗi đắng cay của cuộc đời

to take the bitter with the sweet

phải chịu những nỗi đắng cay cùng với những sự ngọt bùi ở đời

(sinh vật học) rượu bia đắng ( (cũng) bitter beer) rượu thuốc apxin

rét buốt (thời tiết)

vị đắng

đắng

bitter almond

hạnh nhân đắng

vị cay

vị đắng

bitter butter

dầu có vị đắng

Harsh, acerbic, acrid, sharp, caustic, mordant: I addedsome cream to the sauce to try and make it taste less bitter. 2unappetizing, distasteful, unsavoury, unpleasant, hard (toswallow or take), irritating, obnoxious, disagreeable, nasty,painful, unwelcome, unpalatable: The demand for additional taxpayments was a bitter pill.

Miserable, grievous, dispiriting,distressing, cruel, distressful: Dismissal after all thoseyears in the firm was a bitter experience.

Resentful,embittered, rancorous; hateful: Andrew felt bitter at not beingselected as chairman.

Stinging, cutting, biting, harsh,reproachful, vicious, acrimonious, virulent; cruel, unkind,unpleasant, nasty: His bitter denunciation of other candidateslost him the campaign.

Sharp, keen, cutting, severe, biting,cold, wintry, freezing: A bitter gale lashed at the rigging.

Adj.

Having a sharp pungent taste; not sweet.

A caused by or showing mental pain or resentment (bittermemories; bitter rejoinder). b painful or difficult to accept(bitter disappointment).

A harsh; virulent (bitteranimosity). b piercingly cold.

N.

Brit. beer stronglyflavoured with hops and having a bitter taste.

(in pl.)liquor with a bitter flavour (esp. of wormwood) used as anadditive in cocktails.

Sweet with a bitterafter-taste.

Arousing pleasure tinged with pain or sorrow.

N.

A sweetness with a bitter after-taste. b pleasuretinged with pain or sorrow.

= woody nightshade (seeNIGHTSHADE). to the bitter end to the very end in spite ofdifficulties.

Bitterly adv. bitterness n. [OE biter prob.f. Gmc: to the bitter end may be assoc. with a Naut. word bitter= 'last part of a cable': see BITTS]