In Canada, the Inuit people are jealously guarding their hard-won autonomy in the country's newest territory.

在加拿大，因纽特人小心翼翼地守护着他们来之不易的自治权。

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But that their minds are not different from our own is demonstrated by the fact that the hard-won discoveries of scientists like Kepler or Einstein become the commonplace knowledge of schoolchildren.

但是，他们的头脑与我们的头脑并没有什么不同，这一点已被一个事实所证明，即像开普勒或爱因斯坦这样的科学家们的来之不易的发现，已成为小学生们的常识。

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After ten years' hard study noticed by none, his fame fills the land once honours are won.

十年寒窗无人问，一举成名天下知。

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And there are achievements that have been hard-won.

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Thick, hard-won surfaces, also suggestive of van Gogh, are already crucial in these works.

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