如果先进国家的支票不能兑现，臭氧层就不能恢复。这是关键时刻。

If developed countries don't come up with the money, the ozone layer will not recuperate. This is a critical time.

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例：我以前工作的那个公司，老板喜欢乱开空头支票，结果什么也不能兑现。

Ex. : in my previous company, the boss likes to make empty promises, but nothing ever comes true at last.

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联合国环境规划署的萨布果表示：“如果先进国家的支票不能兑现，臭氧层就不能恢复。”

Says Nelson Sabogal of the U. N. Environment Program: "If devel-oped countries don't come up with the money, the ozone layer will not recover."

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He would regard elections as merely exacerbating the tendency to demagoguery where each person seeking office plays shamelessly to the mob promising all manner of things that they know they will not and cannot deliver.

他会视选举不过就是,加剧煽动行为的倾向,每一位寻求官位的人,都会无耻地沦为盗贼,承诺所有他们明知压根儿无法,及不能兑现的政治支票。

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