Bitter constraint and sad occasion are forcing him to write, even though, of course, he's not yet ready.

亲友的惨遇，痛苦的重压迫使他下笔，尽管如此，他还是没准备好。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

- If you eat these raw, which they do in many places around the world, if you eat a bitter one, you could, in fact, get enough cyanide to kill you.

如果你生吃它们的话，它们在世界上的很多地方都存在，如果你吃了一个苦的根，可能，实际上，它所含的氰化物的量足以令你死亡。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Bitter pride, chipper laughter Then silence, each waiting for the other to contribute something.

苦涩的高傲，爽朗的笑声,沉寂却随之而来,每个人都在等其他人说点什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Obviously poverty and racism and oppression can also corrupt one's spirit and turn the person into someone who is bitter and angry, filled with rage.

当然，贫穷，歧视，压迫,会摧垮一个人的精神，让人变得,愤世嫉俗，满腔怒火。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now, the situation of the Israelites in Egypt, the text says, remains bitter. Exodus 2:23-24: ; "The Israelites were groaning under the bondage, and cried out; And their cry for help from the bondage rose up to God.

以色列人在埃及的境况，文中说，仍然很艰苦，《出埃及记》第2章23到24节：,“以色列人因作苦工，就叹息哀求;,他们的哀声达于神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Why does your body experience one food as highly pleasant, highly reinforcing, highly comforting, highly soothing even, and experience those other foods as bitter and unpleasant?

为何身体能从一种食物中获得高度愉悦感,感到极度满足,舒适,甚至感到安抚,但却觉得其他食物难以下咽呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There's different types of the root that you can get called the bitter and the sweet.

这些根有不同的类型,被称为苦的和甜的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The bitter, of course, are the ones that are very high in cyanide.

苦的根，当然，是富含氰化物的那种。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... Milton is lamenting, once again, that Milton has been compelled to begin writing.

因为亲友的惨遇，痛苦的重压，迫使我前来扰乱你正茂的年华：,利西达斯死了，死于峥嵘岁月。,弥尔顿再一次哀叹道，他是不得以写这首诗的。

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