Not all hot air（中）—经济学人双语精读
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Implementing the judgment of Paris
⒋The summit got off to an inauspicious start. At the outset Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, declared that his country cannot reasonably be expected to give up its 200 years’ worth of coal reserves. In France, his opposite number, Emmanuel Macron, caved in to massive protests and suspended a planned fuel-tax rise intended to help curb greenhouse-gas emissions from transport. Days earlier, Brazil had withdrawn its offer to host next year’s summit after Jair Bolsonaro, the president-elect who takes office in January and who would love to follow his American counterpart, Donald Trump, out of the Paris deal, said his government had no interest.
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重点词析
inauspicious UK [ˌɪn.ɔ:'spɪʃ.əs] US [-ɑ:-] formaladjective
■showing signs that something will not be successful or positive 不吉利的，不祥的
•After an inauspicious start , Scotland went on to win the match.苏格兰队开场不顺，但后来还是赢了比赛。
cave in AGREE informal
■to agree to something that you were against before, after someone has persuaded you or threatened you 让步；屈服；妥协
•At first, they refused to sign the agreement, but they caved in when they heard another firm was being approached.起先，他们不肯在协议上签字，但听说我们正跟另一家公司接洽就答应了。
protest noun UK [ˈprəʊ.test] US [proʊˈtest]
IMPROVERcountable or uncountable
■a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval or opposition 抗议；反对
•Protests have been made/registered by many people who would be affected by the proposed changes.许多将因拟议改变而受到影响的人举行了抗议活动。
•A formal protest was made by the German team about their disqualification from the relay final.德国队对他们被取消接力决赛资格一事提出了正式抗议。
•Conservation groups have united in protest against the planned new road.环境保育组织联合起来，抗议计划建造的新公路。
president-elect n. 已当选而尚未就职的总统,总统当选人
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实施巴黎判决
峰会开局就不顺。波兰总统安杰伊·杜达一开始就宣称,指望他的国家放弃还能维持两百年的煤炭储备是不合情理的。在法国,总统马克龙向大规模抗议屈服,暂停了意在遇制交通运输温室气体排放的燃油税上调计划。此前几天,巴西撤回了主办2019年峰会的申请,因为于1月就职的新任总统贾伊尔·博索纳罗(Jair Bolsonaro)想追随美国总统特朗普的步伐退出《巴黎协定》,他说他的政府对该协定毫无兴趣。
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⒌Despite these early setbacks, negotiators resolved most of 2,800-odd points of contention in the rule book’s pre-summit draft. Michal Kurtyka, the amiable Polish bureaucrat who chaired the proceedings, turned apparent haplessness into a virtue, by leaving delegates space to thrash out their differences.
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重点词析
odd /ɒd/
■(no comparative or superlative; usually placed immediately after a number 无比较级或最高级；通常紧接在数字后面)approximately or a little more than the number mentioned 大约；略多:
•How old is she—seventy odd?她多大年纪？七十出头？
•He's worked there for twenty-odd years. 他在那里工作了二十多年。
contention noun]kənˈtent.ʃən/countable slightly formal
OPINION 观点
■an opinion expressed in an argument 论点；主张；看法
•[+ that] It is her contention that exercise is more important than diet if you want to lose weight.她的看法是，要想减肥，锻炼比节食更重要。
amiable ['eɪ.mi.ə.bl] adjective
■describes a person or their behaviour that is pleasant and friendly 和蔼可亲的，亲切的；令人愉悦的；友好的
•He seemed an amiable young man.他看上去是个很友好的小伙子。
•So amiable was the mood of the meeting that a decision was soon reached.会议的气氛非常友好，所以很快就作出了一项决议。
thrash sthout
■to discuss a problem in detail until you reach an agreement or find a solution 彻底讨论（直到找到解决办法）；透过反覆商讨解决
•If we've got an important decision to make, we sometimes spend a whole day thrashing it out in a meeting.当我们要作重大决策时，有时会开一整天的会来商定。
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尽管初期有这些挫折,谈判代表们解决了于峰会前起草的规则手册中2800多个争论点中的大部分。会议由和葛可亲的波兰官员米哈尔·库尔蒂卡(MichalKurtyka)主持,他为与会代表留出了讨论分歧的空间,把显而易见的困局变成了好事。
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⒍Poor countries won firmer assurances that rich ones would help pay for their efforts to curb their greenhouse-gas emissions and to adapt to rising sea levels and fiercer floods, droughts, storms and other climate-related problems. The rich world, for its part, cajoled China into accepting uniform guidelines for tallying those emissions. Thus stripped of their most powerful voice, other developing countries reluctantly followed suit. If any cannot meet the standards, they must explain why and present a plan to make amends. This concession, long demanded by the Americans, may not persuade Mr Trump to keep the United States in the deal. But it could make things easier for any successor who wished to re-enter it after Mr Trump has left office.