Clare's bitter words, however, were not fully understood by Tess.

然而，苔丝并没有完全领会克莱尔这些酸楚的话语。

I have come to end thy wrath. Use bitter words, if thou wilt, but put aside thy sword.

我是来让你消消怒火的，用难听的话，但不要拔剑。

Not a bitter word did he say.

他一句话也没说。

Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words.

男人们出言粗鲁，经常酗酒，女人们却装做没有听见这种失言，并一声不响地服侍醉鬼上床睡觉。

On the very train that bore them away they quarrelled—her bitter words had the frequency, the regularity, the inevitability of the stations they passed.

就在载着他们离开的那趟火车上， 他们吵了起来——她的尖酸刻薄的话在他们经过的车站中经常出现， 有规律，不可避免。

Grandet, you are my elder brother, you owe me your protection; act for me so that Charles may cast no bitter words upon my grave!

葛朗台，你是我的哥哥，你应该保护我；为我行动，这样查尔斯就不会在我的坟墓上说出刻薄的话！

The bitter words Rhett had spoken in the early days of the war came back to her, and she remembered him saying he would never fight for a society that had made him an outcast.

这使她回想起瑞德在战争初期说过的话，她想起他说他在这个社会里受排挤，决不会为它而战。

You don't know what a mortification anything of that sort is to a woman. You don't know the sleepless nights we've had in this house, and the almost bitter words that have passed between us since that Fifth of November.

你不知道，这种事对于一个女人来说有多丢脸。你不知道，我们在这屋里度过的那些个不眠之夜，以及从十一月五日以来，我们俩说了多少差不多是尖刻酸楚的话。