COP 17 as it was known is the 17th conference of parties, an annual meeting of world governments and interested parties aimed at forging a large scale agreement to tackle the climate change.

COP 17就像知道的那样，叫做第17次相关方会议，是一个由全球国家和相关方参加的年度会议，其目的是形成一个大规模的解决气候变化的协议。

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For a start, the first round agreement of a 5% emissions reduction from Annex I (that is, industrialised) countries was woefully insufficient, given the scale of the challenge posed by climate change.

从一开始，第一回合附件I协定的有关发达国家减少5%排放量——考虑到气候变化所带来的挑战的规模而言——是非常不足的。

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While no standards war has erupted yet on the scale that brought HTML into the W3C in the first place, these two organizations are not always in agreement as to where HTML should go.

虽然还没有引起最初HTML引入W3C时所爆发的大规模的标准之争，但这两个组织对HTML走向何方并非总是一致的。

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But broad agreement on the scale of global rebalancing required would be useful.

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Proposing to revise the collective-bargaining agreement in order to shift the pay scale toward veterans and away from rookies is, as far as labor negotiations go, relatively inoffensive.

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All questions, apart from those about frequency of sex, were answered on a five-point scale, with one indicating strong disagreement and five indicating strong agreement.

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