The first phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 and the current talks are aimed at setting in place new legally binding emissions targets for the decade to come.

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There we are in Phase D,in something like, perhaps,persistent vegetative state.

这就是D阶段，可以叫做，持续植物人状态。

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But Barthes has entered a phase of his career in which you actually think that structures are so complex that they cease to be structures and that this has a great deal to do with the influence of deconstruction.

但是巴特已经进入了事业的一个阶段,这时你会认为结构非常复杂而不想继续研究结构了,这就对解构主义产生了很大的影响。

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The great learned journals are in their early phase.

重要的报刊也初现雏形。

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