新视野大学英语视听说 Unit 7-17

Task 3: A Tongue Twister
Betty Botta bought some butter.
“But,” she said, “this butter is bitter¹.
Put a bit of better butter
Will make my butter better.”
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than the bitter butter.
And it made her butter better.
So it was better than Betty Botta
Bought a bit of bitter butter.
 

1 bitter   

adj.激烈的，苦涩的，辛酸的，厉害的，悲痛的；n.辛酸，苦味，苦酒

参考例句：

• The bitter winter was coming.寒冬到了。
• The two countries fell out in a bitter wrangle over imports.这两个国家在有关进口问题的激烈争吵中闹翻了。