| 释义 |
to the bitter end continuing until the end, even though this is difficult坚持到底; 拼到底:•Employees have vowed to fight the closure to the bitter end .雇员们誓死抗争到底,坚决抵制关闭企业。 to the bitter end used to indicate that one will continue doing something until it is finished, no matter what 义无反顾, 坚持到底: the workers would fight to the bitter end. 工人们将战斗到底。 [ORIGIN: perhaps associated with a nautical word bitter denoting the last part of a cable inboard of the BITTS, perhaps influenced by the biblical phrases 'her end is bitter as wormwood'. (Prov. 5:4).] |