1·You're too old to be given a job. That's a bitter pill to swallow.
你年龄太大，不能给你工作了。那样的事情是吞苦果。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·It is worth noting that climate change is not a bitter pill only for the poor to swallow.
值得注意的是，气候变化不是仅有穷人才会面临的严酷现实。
3·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。
4·I pick up my pill box, tip out my medication into my hand and, with mixed feelings, swallow the pills.
我拿起药盒，把药片倒在手中，伴着五味心情吞下了它们。
5·As precautionary health measures go, supplements are easy. Compare the two seconds required to swallow a pill with the constant vigilance necessary to exercise and eat right.
在采取预防保健时，与坚持锻炼和正确选择饮食相比，只需要保持必要的警惕，花两秒钟服用补充剂药物，这种方法显得容易多了。
6·The international Banks that lent to Dubai, like the emirate itself, may have to swallow a bitter pill and agree to a restructuring in the total debt.
如同该酋长国自己一样，贷款给迪拜的那些国际银行可能也不得不吞下苦果，同意对整体债务进行重组。
7·The effort involved in doing all this can easily meet or exceed the cost of the original application — a difficult pill to swallow for all concerned.
完成所有这些工作所需的投入很容易与原始应用程序的成本持平，或超出原始应用程序的成本——全面考虑需要面对很多困难。
8·Direct response advertisers, often some of the most profitable marketers on the Internet, may find mobile commerce an even more difficult pill to swallow too.
直效广告，作为互联网最有盈利能力的市场之一，在移动网络领域也屡尝苦果。
9·The bitter pill, in this idiom, is an unpleasant fact that is difficult to accept or as the saying goes, swallow.
苦药，在这个习语中，是指一个令人不愉快的事实，难以接受或如同谚语说的那样，难以下咽。
10·In this example, Catherine is the one who must swallow a bitter pill.
在这个例子中，凯瑟琳就是这个必须吞下苦果的人。