bite the bullet

/ˌbaɪt ðə ˈbʊlɪt/INFORMAL · C1
中文对应完全对应
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字面意思: «咬住子弹»

含义

to make yourself do something unpleasant you have been avoiding

逼自己去做一直回避的难事.

例句

  1. 1I'd been avoiding the pile of bills for weeks, but on Sunday I bit the bullet and sorted them out.
  2. 2We'll have to bite the bullet and tell the landlord we're moving out.
  3. 3The boiler was ancient, so in January we bit the bullet and paid for a new one.
  4. 4Tom kept putting off the difficult phone call, but in the end he had to bite the bullet.
  5. 5Are you going to bite the bullet and ask your boss for a pay rise?

语法

只有 bite 变化形式:bites、biting、bit、bitten。后面常接 and 加动词,说明要做的难事。

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