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bitter cup 苦木杯。

bitter end

After all their high hopes for their sons , they ' ve had a bitter cup to drink : one a drug addict , one in jail , and now the youngest diagnosed a dangerous psychopath 他們一直對兒子們寄于厚望,可結果一個成了吸毒者,一個進了監獄,現在最小的兒子又診斷出患了嚴重的精神病,他們真是不幸到了極點。

This, however, formed a part of the bitter cup which she was doomed to drink, to atone for crimes and follies to which she had no accession . 可是,這是她命中注定要喝的一杯苦酒,從而清償與她毫不相關的罪過和愚蠢。

This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year . 這不過是以后每年還要遞給我們的苦杯的第一口,第一次嘗嘗味道罷了。