heartburning
/hahrt-bur-ning/US // ˈhɑrtˌbɜr nɪŋ //
烧心,心烧,胃灼热,胃灼热感
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
Examples
So passed a year, full of anxiety and heartburning for them, full of the sweetest happiness for me.
Much heartburning and much needless trouble often come of "offences" which exist only in imagination.
In the following pages is the Courant confession of Burke, about which there was so much difficulty and heartburning.
This is why a question apparently of pure science turns out practically so full of inward heartburning and mutual reviling.
It reduced his heartburning to melancholy, and he exclaimed, "Why the deuce did I come here!"
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