尽管如此，他自己的试验却一再受挫，没有取得过成功，使他困窘不已。

Nonetheless, he was continuously frustrated by his own, rather embarrassing, lack of success.

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然而19世纪一连串的变化将他们本就困窘的境地变得更加糟糕：森林急剧退化使他们无法捕猎，很多人经营的盐业生意因为盐税而受影响。

Yet their plight was made worse by a series of 19th-century changes, including rapid deforestation, which stopped them from hunting, and the imposition of a tax on salt, which many had traded.

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那小孩问了些出乎意料的问题使我困窘。

The child embarrassed me by asking unexpected questions.

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