On tackling climate change, the road is long and tortuous. The Copenhagen Conference is not the end, but a new beginning.

应对气候变化的道路曲折漫长，哥本哈根会议不是终点，而是一个新起点。

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Despite tortuous negotiations in the run-up to the meeting, a binding legal agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions will not be struck.

尽管会议预备阶段经过曲折的谈判，但这并不能促进有关温室气体排放的一篮子合法协定的达成。

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If it's not obvious by the semi-tortuous steps above, it's worth noting that this isn't something we're exactly desperate for folks to re-enable, but it's there if you really need it for some reason.

如果上面近乎龟毛的步骤看上去不够简单，那是因为我们其实并不希望你们重新使用它。不过如果你因为某些原因一定要用到，它还是在那里的。

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It is a reminder that, were Scots to back independence, this would mark the beginning and not the end of a long, tortuous process of negotiation between the Scottish and Westminster governments - over currency, the monarchy, the armed forces, North Sea oil revenues, pension rights and much more besides.

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The whole tortuous tale shows that it is not true that the commission is indifferent to fraud.

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But for those who must navigate not the seas or the stars, but our tortuous civil justice system, the term conjures epic nightmares.

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