bitterness
苦味,辛酸,苦涩,苦难
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- : a harsh, acrid taste that is one of the four basic taste sensations; a taste that is not sour, sweet, or salty:The beer’s initial flavor profile is a faint bitterness, with a lingering, slightly cloying sweetness.
- : a feeling of pain or distress: The bitter herbs at a Passover Seder are meant to remind us of the bitterness of slavery.
- : a feeling of antagonism, hostility, or resentfulness: There was no shortage of people expressing frustration and bitterness about the slow pace of the relief efforts.
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Her recent analysis already shows that caffeine, theobromine and epicatechin, which all produce a bitter flavor, can help set apart one country’s chocolates from another’s.
Tandoori-marinated fish and chips, avocado fried rice, and cocktails spiked with ingredients like cardamom bitters and lemongrass liqueurs keep things familiar but still adventurous.
At London’s American Bar at The Savoy, a housemade salted chestnut liqueur is the star of the Radio Hurricane cocktail, which also contains bourbon, Pedro Ximénez sherry, dry vermouth, toasted oak bitters, and lime.
That’s right, the bitter rival of his hometown University of Texas.
So the scientists monitored the brain to see if it received bitter, sweet or umami signals when mice lacked a key protein needed for these broadly tasting cells to relay information.
But while his departure was “inexpressibly painful,” he never succumbed to bitterness.
At its worst, The Stranger merely recycles the biases, conventional wisdom, and cynical bitterness of inside-the-beltway habitués.
Perhaps some of that solitude and bitterness found its way into Alec Leamas.
His self-doubt prompts him to exert more control and project bitterness.
A U.S. diplomat once spoke with bitterness of the breadth of his power when negotiating with an uncooperative dictator.
Bernard sat thinking for a long time; at first with a good deal of mortification—at last with a good deal of bitterness.
A pang, a that lasted for a day or for a year—and the gap would be filled again by some one else.