The US has unexpectedly joined a large group of countries trying to isolate China and India in the tense home stretch of UN talks in Paris on a new global climate agreement.
美国出人意料地加入了一个由多个国家组成的团体，试图在联合国(UN)有关新的全球气候协议的巴黎谈判的最后紧张阶段孤立中国和印度。
The group, which has dubbed itself the “high ambition coalition”, claims to include about half the 195 nations involved in the two-week Paris meeting known as COP21, which is due to end on Friday.
这个团体自称为“远大志向联盟”，声称包括参加巴黎气候变化会议的195个国家中的约半数国家。本届气候会议为期两周，将于周五落幕。
“This is our moment and we need to make it count,” said Todd Stern, the US climate envoy, as he joined ministers from the EU, Latin America, Africa and Pacific islands at a news conference on Wednesday evening to demand that the new accord contain measures that China, India, Saudi Arabia and other nations are trying to resist.
美国气候特使托德斯特恩(Todd Stern)表示：“这是我们的时刻，我们要让它变得有意义。”他在周三晚与来自欧盟(EU)、拉美、非洲和太平洋岛国的部长的一次新闻发布会上提出，新的协议应包括中国、印度、沙特阿拉伯等国试图反对的措施。
That includes an acknowledgment that global temperatures should not rise more than 1.5C from pre-industrial times and provisions to ensure this goal is met by requiring countries to update their emissions reduction pledges every five years, starting as soon as possible.
其中包括承认全球气温不应比工业时代以前高出1.5摄氏度以上，还包括相关规定，通过要求各国每5年更新减排承诺来确保实现这个目标，并尽早开始。
The pledges that more than 180 countries have tabled for the Paris accord would see warming rise above 2C, a threshold that governments agreed should not be breached at UN climate talks five years ago.
超过180个国家为巴黎气候协议提出的承诺将使得全球温度较工业时代以前的水平升高2摄氏度以上，在5年前的联合国气候谈判中，各国政府同意温度升幅不应超过这个数字。
“There are some countries here who are not in the coalition and, indeed, would seek a more minimal outcome,” said Mr Stern, declining to single out countries by name.
斯特恩表示：“一些国家不在这个联盟内，确实，他们不寻求达成多么大的成果，”他拒绝列出这些国家的名字。
But the nations identified themselves later in the night when delegates met to consider the latest version of the draft accord produced during the day, a 29-page document riddled with competing options on a slew of contentious issues.
但当晚晚些时候，当各国谈判代表开会讨论当日制定的最新版草案协议时，这些国家表明了自己的立场。
“I understand fully the demand for mentioning 1.5C,” said Prakash Javadekar, India’s environment minister. “However, a 1.5C goal would require developed countries to massively reduce their emissions and massively scale up their financial support to developing countries. This is not happening.”
“我完全理解1.5摄氏度的要求，”印度环境部长普拉卡什雅瓦德卡尔(Prakash Javadekar)表示，“然而，1.5摄氏度需要发达国家大规模减排并大规模增加它们对发展中国家的财力支持。这我目前还没有看到。”
Some delegates pushing for a stronger agreement are privately voicing concerns that the 1.5C goal might end up being traded off in exchange for India and China supporting five-yearly pledging updates.
一些推动更强有力协议的谈判代表私下担心，1.5摄氏度的目标可能最终会被放弃，以换取印度和中国支持每5年更新减排承诺。