Spotted owls are on the decline despite two decades of work to bring them back.

尽管在过去二十年里，人们为了保护斑点猫头鹰做了很多工作，但斑点猫头鹰的数量仍然处于下降趋势。

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Despite decades of work by health campaigners, more than one billion people still smoke today.

虽然反吸烟行为倡导者在过去的几十年里一直在努力，但是今天仍然有超过10亿的烟民。

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But Singer counters that the idea is nothing but a natural extension of the thesis that free will is an illusion - a theory that he feels is supported by decades of work in neuroscience.

但辛格反驳，这不过是“自由意志是错觉”这一论点的自然延伸，而他觉得数十年来神经科学方面的研究已能支持这说法。

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"It has collapsed because of the conscious work of new generation of opposition inside which worked for two decades on building up an alternative system of information, knowing that's the most important,".

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Decades of work by Rotary International and, more recently, by Bill Gates, will be for nothing.

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After decades of work in radio, music and popular culture, I should have known better.

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And that is more than can be said for three decades of work by other physicists.

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