尽管希望渺茫。

Though hope is frail.

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尽管希望渺茫，当下却有一个可以在预算上大肆砍价的机会，因为在债务上限提议惨败之后，成立了一个美国国会超级委员会（注2）。

The immediate, rather slim, chance is of a grand bargain on the budget emerging out of a congressional "supercommittee" set up after the debt-ceiling fiasco.

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尽管那些失踪七日之后的人们幸存的希望变得越来越渺茫，救援工作仍在继续。

Resources continue to be pour into the nation\'s massive relief operations even as hopes faded for those still missing more than seven days since the quake struck.

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