However, doing any of that without also making efforts to slow population growth makes an uphill climb even more difficult.

不过，离开了减缓人口增长的努力，任何上述方面的举措都会让我们的努力步履维艰。

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As you take these last few steps on what has been an uphill climb with the end in sight, you will know that with every end, new beginning dawns.

当你们沿着这最后的几级台阶向上攀爬看到最后终点，你们会知道伴随着每个终点会有一个新的起点开始出现。

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It was going to be an uphill climb and all that I had to encourage me was the hope that someday things would change. That things would be different.

这会是一个爬坡过程，我所能激励自己的就是心中要怀有希望，相信有一天不好的境况会得到改善，事情能有转机。

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Which means the people behind The Atavist have an uphill climb ahead of them.

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The problem for Fed Chairman Bernanke is that now the tightrope is an uphill climb.

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And I said at the time this is going to be an uphill climb.

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