In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires—nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.
2015年，美国林务局首次使用55亿美元年度预算的一半以上用于灭火——这几乎是20年前火灾支出所占比例的两倍。
But can such efforts stem the tide?
但是，这种努力可以扭转局面吗？
In the past, though, many such efforts have flopped.
过去也有很多这样的努力，不过都失败了。
Now scientists have found such efforts have a long history.
现在，科学家们发现这样的努力由来已久。
Shy and extroverted people can similarly benefit from such efforts.
不管是害羞的人还是外向的人，都能从这样的训练中有所收获。
The trouble is that, as time passes, all such efforts seem palliative at best.
问题是，随着时间的推移，所有这些努力越发显得治标而不治本。
In Senegal, Ghana, Egypt and other countries, such efforts have made headway.
在塞内加尔、加纳、埃及和其他一些国家，这类行动已经取得了进展。
Deibert says one major question now is how to preserve privacy amid such efforts.
德伯特说，一个主要问题是在此过程中，如何保护隐私。
However it is impossible to guess whether such efforts will pull Michigan out of the mire.
然而，这些努力能否令密歇根走出泥沼，还无法估计。
Soli Ozel doesn't believe such efforts have much chance of success, but still thinks they are important.
厄泽尔认为，这些努力不大可能成功，但他仍然认为这些努力非常重要。
Thorntown's bucolic bliss was thanks to a corporate sponsor, Campbell Soup. But such efforts are not enough.
索恩镇的田园快乐要感谢康宝浓汤的企业赞助，但光靠这种努力是不够的。
One impulse common to such efforts, Mr. Mabry suggests, is a desire to preserve the symbols of a more confident America.
Mabry先生指出，这些举动的共同原因是一种渴望——保护一个更自信的美国的标志。
The Federal Reserve, in collaboration with the private sector and other regulators, is intensively engaged in such efforts.
联储与私营部门和其他管理者合作，大力开展这项工作。
But such efforts will ultimately have a patchy and limited impact because they do not address the root causes of unmet health needs in girls and women.
但是，这些努力最终只会产生局部有限的影响，因为它们不能解决女童和妇女健康需求得不到满足的根本原因。
Afterward, the Republican Congress was less sympathetic to such efforts, especially those designed to reduce poverty and create new jobs in poor nations.
后来，共和党人成了国会的多数党，他们不太赞成这种做法，尤其不支持为穷国减少贫困和创造新就业机会的努力。
It requested the Director-General to pursue actively such efforts in accordance with the basic texts of the Organization and the decisions of the Conference.
大会要求总干事根据本组织《基本文件》和大会的决定，继续积极开展这方面的工作。
There is basis and need for both sides to strengthen bilateral relations and such efforts conform to fundamental interest of the two countries and their people.
加强中斐关系既有基础，也有需要，符合两国和两国人民的根本利益。
While few people give little chance of any breakthrough, experts say the real motive behind such efforts is for Turkey to balance its relations between Russia and the West.
尽管几乎没有人认为这些访问会取得任何突破，但是专家认为，对于土耳其来说，这类努力背后的真正动机是平衡同俄罗斯和西方国家之间的关系。
Such efforts seem to be paying off.
像这样的努力似乎取得了成功。
Such efforts would not even need to be kept secret.
此类做法甚至不需要保密。
Such efforts may help to transform Ohio's economy in the long term.
这些努力对于俄州的长期经济转型或有帮助。
Such efforts are expected to be costly, but not as expensive as doing nothing.
预计此类工作耗资巨大，但不作为的代价更大。
Such efforts have won over some of the Pentagon’s toughest environmental critics.
这些努力甚至赢得了对五角大楼最挑剔的环境人士好评。
Such efforts rob the team of feeling self-direction and ownership of their process.
这样的努力剥夺了团队对过程的自我指导和所有权。
Such efforts may attract little attention compared with the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour this week.
与本周发射的奋进号航天飞机相比，上述计划可能不会被过多关注。
Such efforts may attract little attention compared with the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour this week.
与本周发射的奋进号航天飞机相比，上述计划可能不会被过多关注。
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