Embitter means to cause someone to feel bitter or resentful. For example, fathers should not embitter their children, lest they become discouraged, or Israel's assault aimed to enrage and embitter a generation.
embitter (vt. 使怨恨；使難受；使受苦) 指使某人感到痛苦或心懷怨恨。例如，父親不要惹兒女的氣，以免他們灰心，或是以色列的襲擊旨在激怒和使一代人痛苦。
| 英语单词 | embitter |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ɪmˈbɪtə(r)] 美 [ɪmˈbɪtər] |
| 中文释义 | vt. 使怨恨；使难受；使受苦 [ 过去式 embittered 过去分词 embittered 现在分词 embittering 第三人称单数 embitters ] |
| 英语例句 | (1) Fathers do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. (2) If Israel's purpose was to enrage and embitter a generation of us who seek a just and lasting peace, then its assault was a wild success. (3) But every circumstancethat could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the miseryof Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby--in an immediate andirreconcilable rupture with him. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 你们做父亲的，不要惹儿女的气，恐怕他们失了志气。 (2) 如果以色列是想激怒并让我们追求公正和持久和平的这一代受苦，那么它的袭击是不会得逞的。 (3) 但是，可能招致不幸的种种现象似乎凑合到一起来了，正在加剧玛丽安的悲痛，与威洛比最终分离的悲痛。 |
| 星级 | ★★★ |
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