Some years ago I knew a woman who taught me in her quiet way to never quit no matter how long seem the odds against healing.

许多年以前，我认识的一位女士用平静无声的方式教会我，不论治愈的希望多么遥不可及，也不要放弃。

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Yet this progress has been made against some ever-growing odds.

然而，这一进展是在一系列困难日益加剧的情况下取得的。

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Racing tipsters among the scientists say the odds might be five-to-one or even ten-to-one against some of these potential disasters.

竞相预测的科学家中有人说，这些灾难的可能机率，也许是五比一，甚至是十比一。

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And they're doing this against some pretty incredible odds, especially in developing countries.

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Beckett's plays, with their theme of constant striving against the odds, their inevitable failure but determined continuing towards some sort of truth, fitted exactly with Arikha's notions of his art.

ECONOMIST: Avigdor Arikha, painter of life, died on April 29th, aged 81

But the revelation of "Against the Odds" is that so many individual American Jews, and even some non-Jews, stepped up, and worked tirelessly to save European relatives, friends and total strangers from the looming disaster.

WSJ: A Tortuous Road to Refuge | Against the Odds | Museum of Jewish Heritage | By Julia M. Klein