bitter end

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That part of an anchor cable which is abaft the bitts and thus remains inboard when a ship is riding at anchor.
    — pay out a rope to the bitter end (pay out all of the rope)
  2. The final six fathoms (11 m) of anchor chain before the point of attachment in the chain locker of modern US naval vessels.
  3. The end of a long and difficult process. idiomatic

词形变化

bitter ends plural

词源

The figurative usage is influenced by bitter (“unpleasant, arduous”). Indeed, the phrase has been reinterpreted by most today as bitter + end—compare bitter cold.
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