1·Despite the odds, organizations expect projects to be completed faster, cheaper, and better.
尽管困难重重，组织总期望着项目能完成得更好、更快、更省。
2·Wealth is not merely the result of man's ability to think (as Ayn Rand famously believed). Rather, it is the ability to think combined with the courage and determination to persevere despite the odds.
财富不单单只是人类思考能力的结果，它是思考能力与勇气和无论如何都坚持下去的决心相结合的结果。
3·Despite the enormous odds, they continue to fight.
尽管存在许多变数，他们仍会继续斗争。
4·The ones you normally hear about are the ones that did or said something no one else did or accomplished something despite all the odds.
一般听说的，是那些做了其他人都做不到或没有完成的事、说了他人没有说过的话的人。
5·Despite the tough odds that coral reefs face-pollution, overfishing, and climate change among them-they may not be faring as badly as many biologists had feared.
尽管珊瑚礁面临着种种厄运，如海水污染、过度捕捞以及气候变化，但情况或许并没有许多生物学家所担心的那么严重。
6·Despite massive improvements in documentation over the past few years, odds are you will have to dig into the code at some point.
尽管过去几年中文档有了很大的改进，但是有时您也必须深入钻研代码。
7·And yet despite the incredible odds, one of history's longest chains of virus transmission, dating back at least 3,000 years, was broken in a small harbour on the Indian Ocean more than 30 years ago.
然而，尽管机会微乎其微，可由此上溯至少3000余年的历史上最长的病毒传播链条之一，却在30多年前，在印度洋的某个小小码头上一朝崩解。
8·Despite the apparent link between physical exercise and lower odds of cancer, Albanes acknowledges that there could be other factors at work.
阿尔拜尼斯承认，尽管体育锻炼和降低癌症发病几率之间有着明显的联系，但可能还有其他的因素在起作用。
9·While there might be a long list of serving Reds who could make this list, we preview just five names who, despite all odds, remained faithful to the club.
虽然会有一串很长的名单，那里面全是这种为曼联效力多的球星们，但是我们在这里只能选出的5个，还有很多无论什么情况下都忠于球队愿意为球队付出生命的球员，我们不得不把他们排除在外。
10·He knows what a revolution looks like, he knows the long odds against any revolution actually coming to fruition, and he knows when it's worth trying anyway, despite the long odds.
他知晓一场变革应该是怎样的，也预见到那些最初不利于变革的渺茫因素，到最后亦有可能成为现实，他知道什么是值得尝试的时机，即使成功机会的很小，依然要去做。