| 1. | Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow
考试不及格是一服难以吞咽的苦药。 |
| 2. | His failure was a bitter pill to swallow
他的失败是一贴苦药，让人难以接受。 |
| 3. | Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow
考试不及格是一服难咽的苦药。 |
| 4. | He took a mouthful of the bitter medicine and made a face
他喝了一口苦药，做了个鬼脸。 |
| 5. | A faithful friend is the medicine of life
真诚的朋友如一剂生活的苦药。 |
| 6. | Repentance is a bitter physic
懊悔是苦药。 |
| 7. | Unprepared as he was for the large pill he had to swallow , he got it down
他对于这样重的一剂苦药虽无准备，却也硬吞了下去。 |
| 8. | Kosovo ' s albanians will be happy with this ? but they will have a bitter pill to swallow too
科索沃阿族人将对此感到满意? ?但他们也会吞下苦药。 |
| 9. | Ethical conduct is an unpleasant medicine that society forces down business people ' s throats to protect the public interest from business avarice
道德行为是社会为了保护公众利益不受商业欺诈而强迫商界咽下的一服苦药 |
| 10. | Over the past six years the house republicans have repeatedly snuffled up the sugar that had been meant to make the bitter pill of entitlement reform go down , without swallowing the hard stuff
在过去六年当中，议院的共和党人一直在含糊其辞，试图使彻底的授权制度改革这粒苦药包一层糖衣，然后自己服下。 |
