a bitter pill to swallow
基本解釋
- 吞下苦果；（必須吞下去的）苦藥丸，不能不做的苦事，不得不忍受的屈辱
英漢例句
- It is a bitter pill to swallow but the truth is fear drives your life.
一個好一點的解釋是你只是在忍受，但事實是你讓恐懼掌控了你的生活。 - Kosovo's Albanians will be happy with this—but they will have a bitter pill to swallow too.
科索沃阿族人將對此感到滿意——但他們也會吞下苦藥。 - A tough loss, and a bitter pill to swallow, but with distance the US players can certainly be proud of their efforts.
這是一場艱難的失敗，一顆難以吞咽的苦果。 但長遠地看，美國球員可以當之無愧地為自己的努力而驕傲。 - Otherwise, they will have a bitter pill to swallow when change is forced upon them.
FORBES: One Way To Fix Health Care's Obesity Problem - For parliament member Mustafa Alush(ph), nominating another general was a bitter pill to swallow.
NPR: Lebanese Rivals Agree on Compromise Candidate - Kosovo's Albanians will be happy with this—but they will have a bitter pill to swallow too.
ECONOMIST: Serbia and Kosovo