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最近の news report から
By Peter Aldhous ; BuzzFeed News Reporter
▷Scientists Are Being Accused* Of Pandering** To Politicians Who Want To Delay Action On Climate
Policy experts are fighting over how to deal with the rising carbon emissions*** causing global warming?
*accuse; to say that sb has done sth wrong:
"I accused her of cheating."
**pander; (phrasal verb) pander to sb/sth to do or say what sb wants even if it is wrong or unpleasant
***emission(←emit); to send out sth (smell or smoke, etc)
From OWD(Oxford wordpower dictionary).
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▷And now one has accused climate scientists of proposing* unrealistic solutions for political reasons.
*propose(-ing): to suggest a plan, an idea, etc. for people to think about and decide on
From OWD.
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▷This coming December, the world's nations will gather in Paris to figure* out how they will avoid dangerous climate change. To say that expectations** are low is putting it mildly.
*figure out: figure sb/sth out; to find an answer to sth or to understand sb
**expectation(←expect); the belief that sth will happen: "There's no expectation of the weather getting better for some days yet."
From OWD.
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▷For climate policy experts, the best expected outcome* a series of nonbinding** commitments*** from individual countries to curb^ emissions would still leave us hurtling^^ into the danger zone, long defined^^^ as a rise in the average global temperature of 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.
*outcome: the result or effect of an action or event
** nonbinding: ←binding; the cover that holds the pages of a book together
***commitment: a thing that you have promised or agreed to do, or that you have to do
^curb: to control or limit sth, especially sth bad
^^hurtle: to move or make sb/sth move very fast in a particular direction
^^^define: to say or explain what the meaning of a word or phrase is
From OWD.
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