四、Translate the following passage into Chinese.（30 points） The United Nations climate conference ambled toward a conclusion on Friday, with
delegates saying that the meeting would produce no more than a modest set of measures
toward a new international agreement two years from now. As usual, the biggest dispute
was over money.
The talks, the 19th annual meeting of parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, opened nearly two weeks ago in the shadow of a
devastating typhoon in the Philippines. The disaster added momentum to a proposal by
poorer nations for the creation of a new mechanism to compensate developing countries
for damage from climate-related disasters.
With the clock winding down and the talks likely to extend into Friday night, the socalled
loss-and-damage proposal remained alive. But the wealthy countries that would
presumably provide financing for the plan were offering a weaker alternative that would
wrap it into an existing area of the climate treaty.
“There are no surprises here,” said Ronald Jumeau, a Seychelles diplomat who acts
as spokesman for the Alliance of Small Island States, countries likely to be damaged by
rising seas and more intensive storms as greenhouse gases trap ever more energy in the
atmosphere. “It’s brinkmanship.”
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