Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better.

不要因为自己在努力改善生活的过程中而可能取得的微乎其微的成功而气馁，也不要为此伤心痛苦。

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His closest relative, the aggressive house spider or Tegenaria agrestis, is a less than friendly sort – perhaps embittered by failed affairs and preferring the grimier haunts of garages and sheds;

它最近的亲戚，即虎视眈眈的家蜘蛛或流浪蜘蛛（学名为Tegenaria agrestis），并不是那么友好的类型――或许长期以来因失恋而恼羞成怒并且更喜欢出没在沾满了灰尘的车库和车棚；

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In his later years, he became embittered by it, or more likely because of his increasing suspicion that he was not Mozart.

晚年时，他变得因为意志而受苦，或者更有可能是因为他越来越怀疑他不是莫扎特。

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Skeptical, or simply embittered over the reserve accounting scandal, investors price Shell at only 9 times trailing earnings, versus 11 and 12 for its two larger rivals.

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