这些拖后腿的家伙们会提出这样的疑问：如果我们做出的减排努力被中国巨大且仍在增长的污染阴云所遮蔽的话，那么我们的努力还有何意义？

What point is there cutting back on our own emissions, the foot-draggers ask, if our efforts are obscured by a vast and growing cloud of pollution from China?

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阴云密布，遮蔽了夕阳。路上行人点火烧毁台风肆虐后留下的残骸。

Clouds gathered in front of the setting sun while along the road residents lit fires to burn the debris left by the typhoon.

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